The shock he had expected had come to him, but in far other guise than he had counted on.

With clenched fists and widening eyes he peered at Alden.
The face he now suddenly beheld, under the clear white light of the cabin, was not the hideous, mangled wreck of humanity--The Kaiser's Masterpiece--he had expected to see.
No--far, and very far from that! It was the face of a woman.

One of the most beautiful women his eyes ever had rested on..