sentences:  Finally, Orrie Cather is introduced in "Fer-de-Lance" as a crusty old veteran detective, who smokes cigars; in all future Stout works, he would be a younger, self-confident ladies' man with no cigar-smoking habit.The story's title is the common name of "Bothrops atrox", a venomous South American snake.Fer-de-Lance is French for spearhead, literally "iron of the lance".