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Updated: June 6, 2025
The gentlemanly burglar and the policeman lent their aid to pull the man into the train; the door banged, and they were away. "You've all but missed it," said the burglar. The man in the smock-frock pulled his slouch-hat well over his eyes, and admitted that it was a "close shave." Then he laid his head on the side of the carriage and breathed hard.
"You remember the man, then?" interrupted the detective, following up his advantage, and again scraping his chin with his forefinger. "Oh, yes. I don't forgot him. Vore a buttoned-up coat high like up to his chin " "And a slouch-hat?" prompted Pickert. "Yes, vun of dose soft hats, for I tink de light hurt his eyes ven he come close up to my desk ven I gif him de money."
"That'll do, you needn't mind the stockings," said Kenneth, as he pulled on his new garments. "You'll find that you gain considerably by the exchange. That's it; now here's a sovereign for you, my fine fellow, and many thanks." He finished by lifting the slouch-hat off the countryman's head and placing his own thereon in its stead. "Now, good-night."
Under his slouch-hat he glowered at the Colonel. Maudie broke into a volley of abuse. The very air smelt of brimstone. When finally, through sheer exhaustion, she dropped on the side of the bed, the devil prompted French Charlie to respond in kind.
That indeed was cause for interest. It was directed at a member of the nearest group a man in rough garb, with slouch-hat pulled over his eyes. As Lenore looked she saw this man, suddenly becoming aware of Dorn's scrutiny, hastily turn and walk away. "Hold on!" called Dorn, his voice a ringing command. It halted every moving person on that part of the field.
Beecher's big, boyish heart went out to this bright and intelligent young man they were much in each other's company. People said they looked alike; although one was tall and slender and the other was inclined to be stout. Beecher wore his hair long, and now Tilton wore his long, too. Beecher affected a wide-brimmed slouch-hat; Tilton wore one of similar style, with brim a trifle wider.
Out of the floor rose a gray slouch-hat with the yellow cord and tassel of a cavalryman, and in another moment there stood on the landing one of the most astonished troopers that ever was seen. "Coot" Brandon was one of "Jeb" Stuart's rangers, and came every day for corn for his horse.
He fried two eggs, called Dollar Ingersoll, his dog son of Robert Ingersoll Stillman, gentleman dog then, in canvas hunting-coat and slouch-hat, tramped out of town southward, where the woods ended in prairie. Gertie's arrival was forgotten. It was a gipsy day.
A good many people and two other gendarmes joined in the chase after the man in the slouch-hat, who had disappeared like a mouse or a hare around some shrubbery.
Before the thick brown muscular fingers had choked the scream that rose in her throat, the key crashed in the lock, and the door was violently kicked open, admitting ... No portrait is required of that burly, bald-browed, sharp-eyed, grizzle-bearded, square-jawed farmer, of the bronzed and sun-cracked countenance, implacable under the slouch-hat with the orange-leather band.
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