Although it was nearly oval in contour, and although the features were or had been fairly regular, yet it was so marked by hard, and one might almost say fleshless muscles, and so brutalized by long indulgence in savage passions, that it struck you as frightfully ugly.

A large dull-red scar on the right jaw and another across the left cheek added the final touches to this countenance of a cougar.
"He is my man," whispered Garcia to Coronado.

"I have hired him for the great adventure.

Sixty piastres a month.

Why not take him with you to-day ?" Coronado gave another glance at the gladiator and meditated.