The Strange Woman Author:Ben Ames Williams FIRST PAGE: During her lifetime only seven men-and no women-really knew Jenny Hager for what she was; and Lieutenant Vincent Carruthers of His Majesty's frigate Endymion was the first of seven. No man of lesser qualifications could have been so quick to recognize Jenny's essential attributes. The lieutenant was a handsome young man of twenty-thr... more »ee, tall and little lank, with a hawk nose and pink cheeks. His chin, seldom demanding the attention of a razor, was smooth; but there was a suggestion of downy beard just in front of each ear. His hawk nose was useful to him as an officer, enabling him to assume a severe and commanding demeanor simply by composing his countacnce....« less