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Hickey backed suddenly away and the cab sprang into motion; while Maitland with a face of fire sat back and raged and wondered. Across Broadway toward Fourth Avenue dashed the hansom; and from the curb-line Hickey watched it with a humorous light in his dull eyes. Indeed, the detective seemed in extraordinary conceit with himself.
After that they sat in silence, this childless couple, trying to fashion to themselves how it would seem to be superannuated. The short December days were all too short for Henry. He counted the hours, marked the movements of the minute-hand on the face of his cab clock, and measured the miles he would have, not to "do" but to enjoy, before Christmas.
But she did not notice the movement. 'What have you done with your Irish people? 'Sent to the Dragon for a good meal for them, poor wretches. And then, luckily, I caught Father Grady, and I've asked him in to speak to them, and dissuade them from going off in a body. How did Miss Hale go home? I'm sure she could not walk. 'She had a cab. Everything was done properly, even to the paying.
However, married or not, she concentrated all her spleen on cab-drivers, and was continually hauling some luckless driver or other before the London magistrates. Having a profound respect for Burton's judgment, she often went to him about these cab disputes, and, oddly enough, though nobody else could get at him, he was always at the service of Mrs.
He reached her just as she was jumping into the vehicle, and getting in after her, he almost fell onto her, and then tumbled onto the bottom of the cab as it started. He picked himself up, however, and sat down by her side, feeling very much annoyed. It was no good for him to insist and to beg her; she showed herself intractable, and when they got to the door, she stated her conditions.
The detective seized his bag, hurried out of the car, hailed a cab and drove to the Hotel Deux-Hemispheres, which had been recommended by his colleague. After engaging his room Juve asked the porter to telephone to the police to find out when Heberlauf could see him. While waiting for the reply he took a bath and changed his clothes.
She stopped in front of one of the big clubs and, scribbling a line on her card, gave it to the door keeper. "Will you find out if this gentleman is in?" she said. "If he is, will you kindly ask him to step out and speak to me?" She returned to the cab and waited. In less than five minutes a tall, broad-shouldered young man, clean-shaven, and moving like an athlete, came briskly down the steps.
When we got home we found all four of those who had ridden in the cab sitting in our sitting-room we don't call it nursery now looking very thoroughly washed, and our girls were asking polite questions and the others were saying 'Yes' and 'No', and 'I don't know'. We boys did not say anything. We stood at the window and looked out till the gong went for our dinner.
"Would you like to be a servant clean boots, brush clothes, stand behind a cab, run messages, carry notes, and hold your tongue?" "I could do all that, I think I am twelve years old." "The devil you are! Well then, for your father's sake, I'll see what I can do for you, till you can do better. I'll fit you out as a tiger, and what's more, unless I am devilish hard up, I won't sell you.
He would scarcely have been an entity but for the one moving fact that he himself had just hastily married a girl he adored and must leave, and so sympathised and understood the stress of their hour. On their way home they had been afraid of chance recognition and had tried to shield themselves by sitting as far back as possible in the cab. "I could not think. I could not see.
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