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They had no time to make any further observations, for almost immediately Travers came up the steps, his sun-helmet in his hand. Whatever had happened, he at least seemed unmoved. The exceptional pallor of his face had given place to the old healthy glow. "I have come to drink Stafford's share of the tea as well as my own," he said cheerily. "You see, Mrs.

No sooner had the ships stopped than lines were dropped overboard and many fine fish were caught. The prisoners aft wore very little clothing and often no head-gear at all, though we were in the tropics, where we had always thought a sun-helmet was a sine qua non. But the prisoners got on quite well without one.

We'll show up for the credit of civilians," and he rode into the ring where a score of horses solemnly walked round and round the Judges and in front of the Grand Stand.... General Murger brought Mrs. Dearman a cup of tea, and, having placed his topi in his chair, went, for a brandy-and-soda and cheroot, to the bar behind the rows of seats. Sun-helmet.

He wore a terrible old sun-helmet on his head, and presented a grotesque appearance. After having tea his host took X. for a walk round to show him the place, and all the people crouched on the ground as they passed.

Although at that distance we could see little of him, accident assured us of his identity, for as he rolled the hat he wore fell from him, and I knew it at once for Higgs's sun-helmet. He rose from the ground, limped very slowly and painfully after the helmet, picked it up, and proceeded to use it to dust his knees. At this moment there was a clanking sound.

"Bring him back with you. Some of the hotel guests can act as witnesses. Make haste!" Ruth hurried off to her own room. Before she put on her sun-helmet, she paused before the mirror. Her wedding gown! She wondered if the spirit of the unknown mother looked down upon her.

At Port Said he had a chance of seeing me, thanks to the agent's clumsiness, and I had to shave my beard off and buy a sun-helmet in consequence, for I was travelling in the same ship along the Canal to see that he did not communicate with troops on either side of the bank, and on the slightest suspicion he would have put his stuff over the side.

"There are some concentrated egg tablets in the shanty," said Miss Barrison; but the idea was not attractive. "I refuse to fry a pill for breakfast," I said, sullenly, and set the coffee-pot on the coals. In spite of the dewy beauty of the morning, breakfast was not a cheerful function. Professor Farrago appeared, clad in sun-helmet and khaki.

His sun-helmet and European dress earned him hostile glances and open insults, and more than one foul gibe was hurled at him as he went along by some who imagined him from his dark face and English clothes to be a half-caste. For the native, however humble, hates and despises the man of mixed breed.

"I'm hanged if I know," I replied and woke up. There, without doubt, was old Brother John with a wreath of flowers I noted in disgust that they were orchids hanging in a bacchanalian fashion from his dinted sun-helmet over his left eye. He was in a furious rage and reviling Bausi, who literally crouched before him, and I was in a furious rage and reviling him.