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Probably it had been agreed between them that Sprague would not return to the bridge game, hence Sprague's telephoning for a taxi to wait for him at the foot of the hill, and his taking his hat and stick into the trophy room with him." "Then Miles had from midnight till dawn to remove the gun!" "Yes.
Maisie mentioned the doll.... In a minute the taxi had stopped in front of a toy-shop surpassing dreams, and they invaded the toy-shop like an army. When they emerged, after a considerable interval, nurse was carrying an enormous doll, and Nellie was carrying Maisie, and Ralph was lovingly stroking the doll's real shoes. Robert kept a profound silence a silence which had begun in the train.
Now, there are other things to say " But there was no time to say them, for the taxi stopped. The time seemed so short since the Savoy that Annesley couldn't believe they were in Torrington Square. Perhaps the chauffeur had made a mistake? She looked out, hoping that it might be so; but before her were the darkened windows of the dull, familiar house, 22-A. The great moment was upon them.
The taxi was on the Embankment now, and they sped along for some time in silence. Mr. Richard Vanderpole was more than a little puzzled. "Of course, Penelope," he said, "I don't expect you to tell me anything which you feel that you oughtn't to. There is one thing, however, which I must ask you." She nodded. "Well?"
They were helped into the taxi by the official himself, and what was to happen to them next was left entirely to the decision and discretion of Mr. Twist a man so much worried that at that moment he hadn't any of either. He couldn't even answer when asked where the taxi was to go to. He had missed his train, and he tried not to think of his mother's disappointment, the thought was so upsetting.
Fernau belongs to the small band of German Liberals who have been driven from their country." The taxi had reached the garden-square. They got out and Michael prodigally overpaid the driver. The man took the money. "I'd have driven you for nothing, sir," he said delightedly, "if the car was my own. I was young once, and so was the missus." He saluted respectfully.
"I shall take an early opportunity of asking Forbes." Soon afterwards, we left, and had got a hundred yards from the building when the professor suddenly found he had left his gloves behind in the library. "I shall only be a minute or two, Wigan. Stop a taxi in the meantime." He was longer than that, but he came back triumphant, waving the gloves, an old pair hardly worth returning for.
"The idea had occurred to me," the Alderman smiled. "Au revoir, mater." "But you've got plenty of time!" she protested. "I know," said he. "I'm not going to be late. I haven't the slightest notion where Headquarters are, and supposing the taxi had a break-down!" He divined from the way in which she kissed him good-bye that she was excessively proud of him.
He never took the chance of being stuffed into an upper berth, or riding in a day coach, and he congratulated himself upon his forethought and the ease with which he was proceeding upon his sister's errand. He stepped into the only taxi in sight and drove to the village druggist's for the key to the Congdon house. "Just go in and take your time to it," said the man.
The woman looked her over again with a softened glance, touched, perhaps, by the tremor that shook her visitor's voice. "Mademoiselle est souffrante?" "Non, madame, pas trop, ce n'est pas ça mais il y a quelqu'un qui est en danger quelqu'un qu'il faut prévenir. Si je peux trouver un taxi " "Gaston! Vite! Cherche un taxi pour mademoiselle. Va!"
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