THE INVISIBLE POWER Jay Simmons, the freight agent, was tilted comfortably in a chair near a window looking out upon the railroad platform when Lawler stepped into the office.

The office was on the second floor, and from a side window the agent had seen Lawler coming toward the station from Warden's office.

He had been sitting near the side window, but when he saw Lawler approaching the station he had drawn his chair to one of the front windows.

And now, apparently, he was surprised to see Lawler, for when the latter opened the door of the office Simmons exclaimed, with assumed heartiness: "Well, if it ain't Kane Lawler!" Simmons was a rotund man, bald, with red hair that had a faded, washed-out appearance.

His eyes were large, pale blue in color, with a singularly ingratiating expression which was made almost yearning by light, colorless lashes.
Simmons' eyes, however, were unreliable as an index to his character.
One could not examine very far into them.