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"If it hadn't been because of my missus I wouldn't have been out so early." He blew a puff of smoke and continued: "This Blue Disease seems to confuse folk. My missus was took with it last night." He paused to examine us at his leisure. "When did you get it?" "We became immortal the day before yesterday," said Sarakoff. The taxi-man took his pipe out of his mouth and stared.
One night G.J. had hailed him, and the man had said in a flash, without waiting for the fare to speak, "The Albany, isn't it, sir? I drove you home about two months ago." Thenceforward he had been for G.J. the perfect taxi-man. In the taxi Concepcion said not a word, and G.J. did not disturb her. Beneath his superficial melancholy he was sustained by the mere joy of being alive.
The tide of indignation in him was deflected, and he shifted his feet. The policeman, with a deliberation that was magnificent advanced to the seat and sat down beside me. "Good-morning," I said. "Good-morning," he replied in a deep calm voice. He removed his helmet from his head and allowed the wind to stir his hair. The taxi-man moved a step nearer us. "You ought to arrest them," he said.
"What I mean to say is, what kind of man do you want?" "Any man who will take me where I want to go." The taxi-man nodded. "All right. That's easy." In less time than even to the professor seemed possible the required boat-man was produced and bargained with. That is to say he was requested to mention his terms and produce his launch, both of which he did without hesitancy.
"To say that we are interested in a thing is no suitable explanation," continued the policeman. "After I'd done collecting stamps " "Why don't you arrest these two blokes?" shouted the taxi-man suddenly. "Why can't you do yer duty, you blue fathead?" "I'm coming to that," said the policeman imperturbably.
Not another pedestrian was visible in the street, which was very narrow and ill-lighted, but she plainly saw Gianapolis passing under a street-lamp some thirty yards along. Glancing back in quest of the cabman, but failing to perceive him, she resumed the pursuit. She heard the faint thudding of a motor, but did not look back, for she was confident that this was the taxi-man following.
Direck's mind, as something standing out with an almost representative clearness against the English scene.... So much so that the taxi-man got the dollars.... Because all the time he had been coming over he had dreaded that it wasn't true, that England was a legend, that London would turn out to be just another thundering great New York, and the English exactly like New Englanders.... Section 2
He's made a conquest of Charles by pitching him out of the house, and the taxi-man would help him do murders." "Is he coming back to bed here?" "Didn't ask." "Oh, George, why not?" "He'll come if he wants to." "Didn't he tell you where he was taking his prisoner?" "Only said, 'Must get a move on. Got a man to be hanged, and went." "Then it's Scotland Yard," said Lady Elizabeth.
It's an urgent case." I leapt into the cab. Within five seconds from the time that I slammed the door and dropped back panting upon the cushions, we were speeding westward toward the house of the famous pathologist, thereby throwing the police hopelessly off the track. Faintly to my ears came the purr of a police whistle. The taxi-man evidently did not hear the significant sound.
The policeman replaced his helmet, crossed his long blue legs, and leaned back in the corner of the seat. Side by side on the seat Sarakoff, the policeman, and I gazed tranquilly at the figure of the taxi-man, at the taxi-cab, and at the misty panorama of London that lay beyond the Vale of Health. The expression of anger returned to the taxi-man's face.
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