he pulled back too quickly and glanced at the door . those men will wear his marks for the rest of their days , but the girl did n't get so much as a scratch from him . '' a bald man in an elegant black outfit turned pages from a book . he frowned at her and she recognized the face he made when considering raising the price again . and any one of them would be better suited than she to something like digging out a bear 's den or packing home meat or hides . 