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The two friends dined together at six in Colston's rooms, and at seven sharp his servant announced that the cab was at the door. Within ten minutes they were bowling along the Embankment towards Westminster Bridge in a luxuriously appointed hansom of the newest type, with the precious case lying across their knees.
Now let me endeavour to show you the different steps in my reasoning. To begin at the beginning. I approached the house, as you know, on foot, and with my mind entirely free from all impressions. I naturally began by examining the roadway, and there, as I have already explained to you, I saw clearly the marks of a cab, which, I ascertained by inquiry, must have been there during the night.
'Plase God, surr; 'tis the slape I want, surr; 'tis my breathin' makes the nights so long. 'He is a careful fellow this, you must know, said the Doctor, cheerfully; 'it was raining hard when they put him in the open cart to bring him here, and he had the presence of mind to ask to have a sovereign taken out of his pocket that he had there, and a cab engaged.
"Here it is," Plummer answered, "and I've already set a man to get hold of the cabman. You'd better note the number 92,873." Hewitt duly noted the number, and advised me to do the same, in case I should chance to meet the cab during the afternoon; and as we neared our destination Plummer gave us the rest of the case in outline. "In the office," he said, "I found them in a great state.
I shall be back here, I think, as soon as you are. With that she left the office, and, getting into her cab, was driven to her father's place of business. 'Well, my girl, said the old man, pushing his spectacles up on his brow, and gazing at her, 'what is it now some new extravagance? 'Yes, father, some new extravagance. His daughter was evidently excited, and her breath came quickly.
He writes to her regularly, diary letters, by every mail." "Do you tell him what to put into them?" "Hilda, sometimes you're positively gross." "I daresay, my dear. You didn't come out of a cab, and you never are. I like being gross, I feel nearer to nature then, but I don't say that as an excuse.
One had a feeling that one ought to see as much as possible, and there were some beautiful things, but it was most fatiguing struggling through the crowd, and we invariably lost the carriage and found ourselves at the wrong entrance, and had to wait hours for a cab. Tiffany had a great success with the French. Many of my friends bought souvenirs of the exposition from him.
"I know your secretary," he said, as he got into the cab. "A cunning rogue and a beast the kingdom of heaven be his such as you don't often come across." "Come, Grisha, it is not the thing to abuse the dead." "Of course not, aut mortuis nihil bene, but still he was a rascal." The friends overtook the funeral procession and joined it.
"I concluded to trust to her integrity, and went for the cab. But it was a risk, sir, which I promise not to repeat in the future. She was awaiting me on the stoop when I got back, and at once entered the hack with a command to drive immediately to Police Headquarters. I saw her as I came in just now sitting in the outer office, waiting for you. Are you ready to say I have done well?" Mr.
Long before reaching No. 69 he had opened the door, and was standing upon the step. The instant that the cab pulled up he sprang off, and rang loudly at the great brass bell which flanked the heavy door. "Is Mr. Girdlestone in?" he asked, as Rebecca appeared at the door. "No, sir." "Miss Harston, is she at home?" he said excitedly. "No, sir. They have both gone away." "Gone away!" "Yes.
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