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Updated: June 24, 2025
By slow degrees the glaciers became visible: first those of Gria and Taconay; then the Glacier des Boissons, thrusting a crook of steel-blue ice far into the valley; and then faintly discernible in the distance, and seemingly a hand's breadth of snow framed by the sombre gorge the Glacier des Bois, a frozen estuary of the Mer de Glace. The twilight was now falling.
His steel-blue eyes flashed with an almost supernatural brilliancy as he put the question, and I was conscious of a sense of fear. But I conquered this and answered simply: "It is agreed!" He gave me a keen glance that swept me as it were from head to foot- -then turning from me abruptly, struck a handle on his desk which set a loud bell clanging in some outer corridor.
"Go on, child," her father said, with a touch of impatience in his manner. Thus urged she began. "Mr. Tresler is tall. Six feet. Broad-shouldered." The man's red, staring eyes were bent on his pupil with a steady persistency. "Yes, yes," he urged, as the girl paused. "Dressed in er fashionable riding costume." "His face?" "Black hair, steel-blue eyes, black eyelashes and brows. Broad forehead "
If she went down False Ridge to death in the pits and waterless cuts, he asked no better lot than to follow the faithful dog at her foot, the shadow at her shoulder. And so it was that dawn crept up the blue-velvet of the night sky and sent its steel-blue light deep in the painted splits, and they rode unerringly forward up the sounding passes.
I still retain a vivid impression of that morning's ride, the far-off mountains, like silhouettes, against the steel-blue sky, the crisp dry air, and the expanding track before me, animated often by the well-knit figure of George Tryan, musical with jingling spurs and picturesque with flying riata. He rode powerful native roan, wild-eyed, untiring in stride and unbroken in nature.
In the distance gleamed the snow-capped Sierras, range after range as far as the eye could see to the northwest; in the opposite direction there stood out against the steel-blue of the sky a succession of wooded peaks ever rising higher and higher until culminating in the faraway white mountains of the south; and below, they looked upon a ravine that was brownish-green until the rays of the departing orb touched the leaves with opal tints.
All this we saw through the tracery of the leafless branches, a mirthless, shivering crowd, crept through a hell of weather into the Hair Buyer's very lair. Had he neither heard nor seen? Down the steel-blue lane of water between the ice came a canoe. Our stunted senses perceived it, unresponsive.
Gems flashed from the scarlet turban, the green jacket was embroidered with pearls—and was not half the wealth of Corinth in the jewels studding the sword hilt? Tight trousers and high shoes of tanned leather set off a form supple and powerful as a panther’s. Unlike most Orientals the stranger was fair. A blond beard swept his breast. His eyes were sharp, steel-blue.
I rose to my feet, stifling a yawn, and just then a man entered the room from the bar, closing the door behind him. While he stood hesitating, I took in his appearance by a brief glance. He was tall, slim and wiry, with tawny yellow hair worn long, and thick, drooping mustache. His eyes were of a cold steel-blue, and his face, though very handsome, had something sinister and fierce about it.
She had turned when they reached the candle-lit attic with its high uncurtained windows and red-covered box beds, and standing on the one strip of matting in her full-skirted grey wincey dress with its neat triple row of black ribbon velvet near the hem, had shown Miriam steel-blue eyes smiling from a little triangular sprite-like face under a high-standing pouf of soft dark hair, and said, "Voila!"
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