He surveyed himself in his mirror before he answered it.

Having decided that, in his long dressing gown, he was imposing enough, he advanced to the door and slowly opened it.
He saw before him two sun-darkened men whose soft gray hats proclaimed that they were newly come out of the West.

The one was a fellow whose face had been made stern by hard work and few pleasures in life.

The other was one who, apparently, had never worked at all.

There was something about him that impressed Robert Macklin.