“Jim [Halfpenny] had a rugged face.... His hair, dark and straight and shiny (it almost looked shellacked), draped down his temples where it covered his ears and, merging with thick sideburns and a heavy beard, outlined his face with a ring of black.  The dark features, the deep-set eyes, the hirsute chest through the open collar of a flannel shirt, gave him the look of a mountain man, albeit one who cleaned up nicely.”
[pp. 41-42]