Livingston's serious 'patriots' on the top of the Cape changed their dropping shots into a hot fire against the walls; while Jerry Duggan's little mob of would-be looters shouted and blazed away from safer cover in the suburbs of St John and St Roch.

The hand of the Turkish looters had fallen particularly heavy on carts and draught animals.

These chieftains have always been a strange and changing mixture of mountain patriot and city intriguerof loyal soldier and mercenary looter.

He maintained splendid order in Torreon; sent a detachment of one officer and twenty-five men to the American consul to protect American interests, and stationed patrols throughout the city with orders to shoot all looters.

The looters made quite a haul.

And when I saw you boys aloft, I was in hopes you might have seen something of the bank looters.

Why, the very school children of the future will hear about you as 'Looter Langdon,' and their parents will tell them how particularly degrading it was for a man of your reputation to drag into your dishonest schemes your son, sir, and your daughter.

] The Kaiser's sons continue to distinguish themselves as first-class looters, and the ban laid on the English language, including very properly the word "gentleman," has been lifted in favour of Wilhelm Shakespeare.

The looters, by Emily Hahn.

The looters, by Emily Hahn.

Looters will be shot on the spot!"

And, Mate, the first thing the looters do when they enter a house is to snatch down the telephones and take them out to burn; for, as one rakish bandit explained, they were the talking-machines of the foreign devils and, if left, might reveal the names of the looters!

And, Mate, the first thing the looters do when they enter a house is to snatch down the telephones and take them out to burn; for, as one rakish bandit explained, they were the talking-machines of the foreign devils and, if left, might reveal the names of the looters!

The majority of the besieged boughtor otherwise acquired loot; he never spent a penny on it, and never entered what the looters euphemistically liked to call "deserted houses.