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"There's a thief in the village a guest at the hotel whom I recognize as one of the most expert burglars in the country." "I think I know whom you mean, a man of moderate height, rather thick set, with small, black eyes and a slouch hat." "Exactly." "What can you tell me about him?" Mr. Thorndike repeated the statement he had already made to Carl.
May suddenly sprang on to his companion's shoulders, and raised himself to a level with the summit of the wall. An instant afterward a heavy thud might have been heard. He had let himself drop into the garden. The man in the slouch hat remained in the street to watch.
He wore a coarse though substantial suit of clothes, which hung rather loosely upon him; a gray flannel shirt with a turn-over collar, which was fastened at the throat by a flashy necktie, rather carelessly knotted; a red cotton handkerchief was just visible in one of his pockets; there were coarse, clumsy boots on his feet, and he wore a wide-brimmed, slouch hat.
You knew it would happen some day; but you thought of it as happening to-morrow or the day after rather than to-day. At three o'clock you started for a walk, never knowing how you might come back, and at five you found yourself sitting at tea in the orchard, safe. He would slouch along beside you, for miles, morosely.
There he stood, regarding the Dutch with a calm but defiant aspect, his head and shoulders projecting about three feet over the wall. His legs were only a sack stuffed with straw, but round his straw body a beautiful khaki tunic had been buttoned, and his straw head was protected by a regulation helmet, for which a slouch hat was sometimes substituted, to give variety and versimilitude.
"I saw there also a couple without children; the man had the slouch and hang-dog look of an habitual criminal. "I may give an instance which will show the degradation to which this population has fallen. At Duclair also, on the Seine, are rock dwellings precisely like those on the Loire, and still inhabited.
When he spoke again O'Hara ignored Gabriella, and turned his alert questioning glance on the little seamstress. Fanny had sauntered up the walk to join the group Fanny in all the glory of her yellow curls, and her "debutante slouch " and he bowed gravely to her without the faintest change of expression.
And this instructor was no slouch. What this squadron wouldn't do to the enemy when an over-cautious Chief of Air Service said "Let's go!" Hearing their comments, McGee smiled. He knew, better than they, the great element of luck in his victory.
They come dark-eyed mothers and smiling daughters, decked with gold pins, flapping Leghorn hats, lace veils or snowy handkerchiefs gathered about their heads, coral beads, and golden crosses as big as shields, upon their necks escorted by lover, husband, or father a flower behind his ear, a slouch hat on his head, a jacket thrown over one arm, every man shouldering a red umbrella, although to doubt the weather to-day is absolute sacrilege!
As we stood about, twisting our fingers and cheering, and trying to find something sensible to say or to do, there was a rush of people towards the lines connecting with the American Legation and the Tartar Wall This caused another tremendous outburst of cheering and counter-cheering, and led by C , the American Minister, columns of American infantry in khaki suits and slouch hats came pressing in.
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