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After some delay they discovered a taxi-cab, piled the luggage on to it, and were whirled away towards a little cluster of lights that twinkled beneath the shadows of La Tourne and Boudry. Bourcelles lay five miles out. 'Remember, you're not my secretary here, said Rogers presently, as the forests sped by them. 'You're just a travelling companion.
He would attack, careless of everything, heedless of everything. A mesmerised looking taxi-cab, crawling along on the opposite side of the way, fortunately caught his eye. "I'll make hay!" cried Jones, as he rushed across the street. He stopped the cab. "10A, Carlton House Terrace," he cried to the driver. He got in and shut the door with a bang.
"Oh, just to see if I could cross Broadway without being bumped into by a trolley car or a taxi-cab or an airship. Incidentally, to keep you from losing your breath and hearing in the new tunnels through which you will be shot under these New York rivers." "Tubes, you mean, brother dear, tubes. I've been doing nothing else but shoot the London tubes for the last fortnight."
Up hill, down dale, now up to his ankles in peaty ground, now tearing his shins, now bruising his knees, Spargo, yearning for the London lights, the well-paved London streets, the convenient taxi-cab, even the humble omnibus, plodded forward after his guide.
If they went to the bottom I should go too, but if I was saved I was determined not to reach London without them. As it happened, my adventures were at an end. We saw nothing of any under-water pirates, and my trip to the fighting line ended in a prosaic taxi-cab through London streets that seemed to know nothing of war.
At the end of that half-hour he rose, went into his bedroom, made an elaborate toilet, went out, found a taxi-cab, and drove off to Portman Square. When Barthorpe Herapath left his cousin, Mr.
Cairn stepped out of the lift, crossed the hall, and was about to walk out on to Piccadilly, when he stopped, staring hard at a taxi-cab which had slowed down upon the opposite side whilst the driver awaited a suitable opportunity to pull across.
"I thought he'd gone away for the day!" "He may have returned." She went up the steps of the house while he paid the driver of the taxi-cab, and spoke to the servant who had opened the door. "He's not in," she said to Henry when he joined her. "Then I won't ..." "Come in," she interrupted. "I want to say something to you!"
"Oh! as it happens, he's apparently playing the game." In the half-light, Smith stared at me significantly "Which makes it all the more important," he concluded, "that we should not rely upon his aid!" Those grim words were prophetic. Once, a taxi-cab labored hideously up the steep gradient of the avenue ... It was gone. The lights at the upper windows above us became extinguished.
Other cars passed, swift and soundless, he saw their occupants and then they were gone: an aged man whose grey countenance might have been moulded in sand with a frigid trained nurse; a couple desperately embracing in a taxi-cab; a knot of chattering women in dinner dresses and open furs; another alone, painted, at once hard and conciliatory, hurrying to an appointment.
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