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Updated: June 11, 2025
And the result was that the cabby had to stop, give his number, and listen to a lecture. Simon and Albert formed part of the audience for the lecture. It did not, however, interest them, for they had instantly perceived that the cab was empty. Then, as the lecturer was growing eloquent, Hugo arrived, and was informed of the emptiness of the vehicle.
Guy stood on the pavement and looked vacantly in at him! "That's right," Nevitt said, clasping the bundle tight. "Rio Negro Diamond and Sapphire Mines, cabby, 127, Knatchbull Street, Cheapside." The cabman whipped up his horse and disappeared round the corner, leaving Guy Waring alone like a fool on the pavement.
The cabby got his bawbees frae Meg, an' drave awa', gien Sandy a glower like a puttin' bull; but Sandy juist gae a bit lauch, an' cried, "Ta-ta!" We got into the house. Eh, sic a place for stech! Haud your tongue! Really yon fair sneckit a'thing.
In an instant she could have found herself in Kensington Gardens or Hyde Park; but, just because they were so easy of access, they proved unattractive. She must wander farther afield. She beckoned to a passing hansom. "I want to go somewhere where I shall have green grass and trees," she said to the cabby. "No, it must not be Hyde Park, somewhere farther off."
"Just seen Vereker not a note wrong. Pressed me to bosom keeps me a month." So much I read on her paper while the cabby dropped a grin from his perch. In my excitement I paid him profusely and in hers she suffered it; then as he drove away we started to walk about and talk. We had talked, 'heaven knows, enough before, but this was a wondrous lift.
All I say is, be guided by my directions to-night leave everything to me," said Halloran, with a grim gaze. "I put myself in your hands, Halloran," was the husky reply. The cabby was hurriedly awakened.
The cabby had a foot upon the step when Kirkwood tapped his shoulder. "My man " "Lor, lumme!" cried the fellow in amaze, pivoting on his heel. Cupidity and quick understanding enlivened the eyes which in two glances looked Kirkwood up and down, comprehending at once both his badly rumpled hat and patent-leather shoes. "S'help me," thickly, "where'd you drop from, guvner?"
He lifted his hat automatically. The door closed with an echoing slam. He turned to the waiting cab, fumbling for change. "I'll walk," he told the cabby, paying him off. The hansom swept away to a tune of hammering hoofs; and quiet rested upon the street as Kirkwood turned the nearest corner, in an unpleasant temper, puzzled and discontented.
Here I was at last en route for the elusive Yeomanry Camp! Arrived at Brookwood, I chartered an ancient fly and in about twenty minutes or so espied the camp in a field some distance from the road along which we were driving. "'Ard up for a job I should say!" said my cabby, nodding jocosely towards the khaki figures working busily in the distance.
"All right," cabby responded, and applied the whip with such effect that for a hundred yards or so he contrived to get a decent pace out of the weary brute he drove. By this time I had fallen back once more into the perplexity of my own thoughts, but in a while I woke to the fact that we had fallen back to our old pace, and I made a new effort to stimulate the driver.
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