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Updated: May 19, 2025
At sight of the jaunty little motorbus waiting to haul him up the winding grade to the hotel, he actually hesitated. Yet seldom before, to his knowledge, had he found it difficult to adapt himself to an unexpected situation. "Hotel St. Catherine! Bus to the hotel, sir?"
A long, low car, the chauffeur temporarily detained by the stoppage of a motorbus ahead, had slowed up within three yards of the spot where they were standing. Gray seized Seton's arm in a fierce grip. "Seton," he said, his voice betraying intense excitement, "Look! There is Monte Irvin!" "In the car?" "Yes, yes! But he has two police with him! Seton, what can it mean?"
The first gray streaks of daylight lighted the east as we turned the corner, and we were obliged to pull suddenly to the extreme right, for a heavy Parisian motorbus swung round the bend and rushed on past us. Straining my eyes, I perceived that there was not one but hundreds of them, following each other at top speed down the hill.
The ruthless taxirobber of New York would not last half an hour in London; for him the jail doors would yawn. Oldtime Londoners deplored the coming of the taxicab and the motorbus, for their coming meant the entire extinction of the driver of the horse-drawn bus, who was an institution, and the practical extinction of the hansom cabby, who was a type and very frequently a humorist too.
The pilot went limp in his seat, the observer took his hand from his gun to grip the controls. Too late; the wide-winged fighter skidded like a motorbus on a greasy road and fell into the clouds sideways. But now the enemy was coming at him from all points of the compass.
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