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Updated: June 10, 2025
And it was the breakwater, swarming with negro workmen, who were swinging great blocks of coquina into cemented beds, singing and whistling at their labor. I forgot my predicament when I saw a thin white man in sun-helmet and khaki directing the work from the beach; and as our horses plodded up, I stepped out and hailed him by name. "Yes, my name is Rowan," he said, instantly, turning to meet me.
Still he hung back, looking about him, till to his delight he saw the other litter arrive and out of it emerge Jeekie, still wearing his sun-helmet with its fringe of tattered mosquito curtain. "Here we are, Major," he said in his cheerful voice, "turned up all right like a bad ha'penny, but in odd situation." "Very odd," echoed Alan. "Could you persuade these ladies to let go of me?"
At last a foreigner in white linen and sun-helmet arrived, and exclaimed, angrily: "Away from here! Clear out, you dogs; the tree is on my lands and is my property." The natives put down their baskets and made humble obeisance.
"Not bad, but I shouldn't have fired it," I answered, "for they haven't attacked us yet. It is a kind of declaration of war, and," I added, as Stephen's sun-helmet leapt from his head, "there's the answer. Down, all of you, and fire through the loopholes." Then the fight began.
"And that too. What else is there? Did the young man in the sun-helmet tell you of something worse?" "Yes much worse! Something so dreadfully horrible that " "What?" "I am not at liberty to tell you, Miss Barrison," I said, striving to appear shocked. "It would not make any difference anyway," she observed, calmly. "I'm not afraid of anything in the world." "Yes, you are!" I said.
Although Princess Sira had promised to keep out of the way, she could not resist the powerful attraction of the executive hall, in which, on this day, the fate of two planets was to be decided. As the crowds of people began to drift toward the hall, she joined them, still dressed in her laboring man's shapeless garments, the broad sun-helmet hiding her face effectively.
The men were glad to wear the suits of drill and the sun-helmet which had now been issued. Thus May merged into June; the fourth great German attack was battering at the gates of Compiègne, but the Italian front had as yet given no sign. On our next visit, however, to the line, it became known that a British offensive was to be launched in the middle of June.
They wore the regular German officer's uniform, except that the Pickelhaube was replaced by a khaki sun-helmet.
But our party was pretty well seasoned by this time. All of them wore the broad, leather-banded sombreros of the plainsmen except Professor Wintergreen, who had invested himself in a gigantic pith sun-helmet, from beneath which his spectacled countenance peered out, as Ralph said, "Like a toad peeking out from a mushroom."
However, the winding smooth roads among the forested, shaded bungalows of the upper part of town were very attractive, especially towards evening. At that time the universal sun-helmet or double terai could be laid aside for straw hats, cloth caps, or bare heads. People played the more violent games, or strolled idly.
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