four o'clock
Through a doorway beyond Jock could see others similarly engaged in the next room . On a platform in one corner of the room posed a young man in one of those costumes the coat of which is a mongrel mixture of cutaway and sack . You see them worn by clergymen with unsecular ideas in dress , and by the leader of the counterfeiters ' gang in the moving pictures . The pose was that met with in the backs of magazines -- the head lifted , eyes fixed on an interesting object unseen , one arm crooked to hold a cane , one foot advanced , the other trailing slightly to give a Fifth Avenue four o'clock air . His face was expressionless . On his head was a sadly unironed silk hat . Von Herman glanced at the drawing tacked to the board of one of the men .