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Updated: June 6, 2025
So he signed with an easy flourish the simple agreement presented to him, pocketed two hundred dollars, and bought a new suit of clothes with a black-felt veteran's hat, the first he had had in many years.
He stole another glance at himself after he had slipped easily into the fur-lined overcoat that the valet held for him, after he had set somewhat rakishly upon his head the soft black-felt hat that was the latest accompaniment to the dinner coat. Down-stairs, he spoke to Andrews, the chauffeur. "Drive across the Fifty-ninth Street bridge first." The chauffeur stared at him.
He has none of the small vices, such as smoking, drinking, chewing, or swearing; and his bitterest enemy never accused him of any of the greater ones. He generally wears a well-worn, long gray jacket, a high black-felt hat, and blue trousers, tucked into his Wellington boots. I never saw him carry arms, and the only marks of his military rank are the three stars on his collar.
It is a man in a soft black-felt hat, with a heavy, dark beard, and wearing one of the biggest of the great circular capes that make a part of the officer's overcoat, and are most frequently worn without the coat itself, unless the weather be severe.
Meantime say nothing about this, and you'll lose nothing by holding your tongue. What was his face like this man I mean?" "Couldn't see it, sir. It was dark, and he had a beard all over it, and wore a black-felt hat soft; and he had a cloak something like yours, that was wrapped all over his shoulders." "Remember, I want to see you here in the morning; and hold your tongue till then."
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