This uncanny personage, wearing the semblance of man,
came within two paces of Errington before perceiving him; then, stopping
short in his headlong career, the creature flourished his torch and
uttered a defiant yell.
Philip surveyed him coolly and without alarm, though so weird an object
might well have aroused a pardonable distrust, and even timidity. He saw
a misshapen dwarf, not quite four feet high, with large, ungainly limbs
out of all proportion to his head, which was small and compact. His
features were of almost feminine fineness, and from under his shaggy
brows gleamed a restless pair of large, full, wild blue eyes. His thick,
rough flaxen hair was long and curly, and hung in disordered profusion
over his deformed shoulders. His dress was of reindeer skin, very
fancifully cut, and ornamented with beads of different colors,--and
twisted about him as though in an effort to be artistic, was a long
strip of bright scarlet woollen material, which showed up the extreme
pallor and ill-health of the meagre countenance, and the brilliancy of
the eyes that now sparkled with rage as they met those of Errington.
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