four-dented

Updated: September 19, 2025

Two objects floated there, a broken piece of timber, torn from the side of the shaft, where some one evidently had grasped hastily at it in an effort to stop a fall, and a new, four-dented hat, gradually becoming water-soaked and sinking slowly beneath the surface. And then, for the first time, fear clutched at Fairchild's heart, fear which hope could not ignore. "There 's his hat."

Courtney Ryley Cooper - The Cross-Cut