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Barton was at her wits' end. Three days ago she had met him walking in Grafton Street with Violet; yesterday she had caught sight of him driving towards Fitzwilliam Place in a four-wheeler. She had fortunately a visit to pay in that neighbourhood, and was rewarded by seeing the Marquis's cab draw up before the Scullys' door.
"I suppose you're right," Lionel said, and he rose wearily, "though I would twenty times rather go to bed. You can find a book for yourself, Maurice; I sha'n't keep you many minutes," and with that he disappeared into his dressing-room. A four-wheeler carried them up to Campden Hill; a welcome glow of light shone forth on the carriage-drive and the dark bushes.
'Would you rather have a little quiet talk with me in a four-wheeler, or drive straight to ? Hugh's brain was in commotion. The hint of secrets concerning his wife had not its full effect in the moment of utterance; it sounded the common artifice of a criminal. But Mrs.
Cecilia stood at the hall door that afternoon to watch her go bustling into the cab, with loud directions to the cabman, her hard face full of self-importance and satisfaction. The plump hand waved a highly scented handkerchief as the clumsy four-wheeler moved off. "To think I'll never see you again!" breathed the girl. "It seems too good to be true!"
Knowing that the number of the four-wheeler was 872, it was not a difficult matter to begin the inquiry. But to secure any real information that was different. The driver, a respectable albeit somewhat thick-headed Irishman, could offer only vague recollections of his business for the night of November 16th.
If he can't find a four-wheeler, he'll walk in future. She returned to the bedroom. The man on the bed was Edward Norris once more, in control of himself, risen out of his humiliation. A feeling of thankfulness overwhelmed her for a moment, and she sat down. 'Well, May? he murmured. 'Well, dear. They both realized that what they had been through was a common, daily street accident.
As far as the church door he brought her, and then, as he could go no farther, he conveniently vanished away by the old trick of stepping in at one door of a four-wheeler and out at the other. I think that that was the chain of events, Mr. Windibank!"
We went up the hill at a gallop: were equal with Hatton at Fetter Lane, and reached the Temple Gate yards to the good. The ancient driver of a four-wheeler had been the witness of the finish. He gazed with displeasure upon us. "This 'ere's a nice use ter put Fleet Street to, I don't think," he said coldly.
"I will order a four-wheeler. In a quarter of an hour, we shall be at your service. If you are telegraphing home, Mr. Huxtable, it would be well to allow the people in your neighbourhood to imagine that the inquiry is still going on in Liverpool, or wherever else that red herring led your pack.
It is often thus with those who have been fellow voyagers at sea; and it is always a surprise and perplexity to inexperienced travellers that it can be so, and that those who have been so much to each other for ten days can melt away into space and disappear as though the brief intimacy had never existed. "Four-wheeler or hansom, ma'am?" said a porter to Mrs. Ashe. "Which, Katy?"
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