CONAN, meet the youthful thief

We meet a young CONAN in a tavern, where he is trying to find out more about the Tower of the Elephant

He saw a tall, strongly made youth standing beside him. This person was as much out of place in that den as a gray wolf among the mangy rats of the gutters. His cheap tunic could not conceal the hard, rangy lines of his powerful frame, the broad heavy shoulders, the massive chest, lean waist and heavy arms. His skin was brown from outland suns, his eyes blue and smoldering; a shock of tousled black hair crowned his broad forehead. From his girdle hung a sword in a worn leather scabbard.

 From "The Tower of the Elephant"
Page 80. "The Complete Chronicles of CONAN"