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"Now," said Macleod's companion, "are you tired?" "Tired? I have done nothing all day." "Shall we get into a hansom and drive along to Lady Beauregard's?" "Certainly, if you like. I suppose they won't throw you over again?" "Oh no," said Mr. Ogilvie, as he once more adventured his person in a cab.
"He lives at a place called River's Cottage, at Willesden," wrote Stanbury. "If you turn off the Harrow Road to the right, about a mile beyond the cemetery, you will find the cottage on the left hand side of the lane about a quarter of a mile from the Harrow Road. I believe you can go to Willesden by railway, but you had better take a cab from London."
You white men will say, "Why go on believing in him then?" but that is an idea that does not enter the African mind. I might just as well say "Why do you go on believing in the existence of hansom cabs," because one hansom cab driver malignantly fails to take you where you want to go, or fails to arrive in time to catch a train you wished to catch.
The horses were having a bad time of it, poor things! but the voters inside thought nothing of that; many of them were half-drunk, hurrahing out of the cab windows if their own party came by. It was the first election I had seen, and I don't want to be in another, though I have heard things are better now.
She nerved herself to the task, and knew, not merely from the shrieks of delight, that she had surpassed herself. Happy and flushed she flung herself into her waiting cab. She had the 9.45 turn at her second and most fashionable Hall a Hall where the chairman had been replaced by programme numbers and then would come her third and last appearance at 10.35.
Chupin hastened after the victoria, keeping it in sight until he was fortunate enough to meet an empty cab, which he at once hired.
"I forgot about it; I was thinking of Feversham. Good-bye." He took a cab and drove away from the club door. Willoughby was glad to see the last of him, but he was fairly satisfied with his own exhibition of diplomacy.
Then the noises returned, for a moment the fog lifted showing houses, rising like rocks from the sea sheer about them on every side, then darkness again and the cab stopped with a jerk. "Ah, good," said Mr. Zanti, rolling his red handkerchief into a ball. "'Ere we are, my young friend Mr. Peter, after you, please."
Six o'clock at last came, and he set out for the purpose of making inquiries. He went first to the theatre. Here, after some trouble, he found those who had the place in charge, and, by questioning them, he learned that Beatrice had left by herself in a cab for her home, and that Langhetti had remained some time later. He then went to Beatrice's lodgings to question the landlady.
Even then I did not take a cab to my flat, but passed under the arched Strand front of the 'Cecil' in a cab, bound for the residence of that nobleman who had formerly engaged me to see after the safety of the King. You will say that this was all very elaborate precaution to take when a man was not even sure he was followed.
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