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"Well, it will not be so hard for us to unravel this matter, after all, when we get back to the city. We must make that noon train, Walter. There is nothing more for us to do here." Emerging from the "Tube" at Ninth Street, Craig hustled me into a taxicab, and in almost no time we were at police headquarters.
I stood there peering in the direction from which the mysterious whistle had come. The drone of a taxicab, approaching from the north, increased in volume, as the vehicle came spinning around the angle of the square, passed me, and went droning on its way. I watched it swing around the distant corner ... and, in the new stillness, the whistle was repeated! This time the sound chilled me.
The man turned up a side street and drove off. Still the Bishop watched, only by now the hopefulness had gone from his face. He had sought for something of which there had been no sign. He dismissed his taxicab in front of a large and newly finished block of buildings in the vicinity of Westminster.
Can you overtake it?" "I'd like nothing better than to run down one o' them Dook machines!" said the driver. The driver of the taxicab proved to be a sound sport. Five minutes of luck, aided by nerve, brought the two machines somewhat nearer together. The motor-car gained in the open spaces, the taxicab caught up when it came to weaving its way in and out and dodging the trolleys.
They decided it would be best to get a stateroom for the girl. "We wantta make it as easy as we can for her," said Johnnie. "O' course it's all for her own good, but we don't figure to treat her noways but like the princess she is." "Yes," agreed Clay humbly. According to programme, carefully arranged by Johnnie, Beatrice rode down to the train with him and Kitty in their taxicab.
It was so healthy a bronze, as a usual thing, that his present pallor was the more ashen from contrast. Knowing from his telegram the hour at which to expect him, she had gone down the driveway to meet him when she saw him dismiss his taxicab at the gate. She chose to do this in order that their first encounter might take place out-of-doors.
And here it is, all down in black and white, in my pocket!" "I haven't the slightest idea what you're talking about." Julia's tone was cold, and she drew herself up haughtily, though the gesture was ineffective in the darkness of that quivering interior. The quivering stopped just then, however, as the taxicab came to a rather abrupt halt before her house.
The taxicab swerved around on little better than two wheels, started on a mad dash down the Avenue and Jimmie Dale braced himself grimly in his seat. The cab swerved again, tore across Waverly Place, circuited Washington Square, crossed Broadway, and whirled finally into the upper end of the Bowery. Jimmie Dale spoke once to himself plaintively.
Later he did himself very well at Delmonico's, enjoying for the first time in many years a well-balanced dinner faultlessly cooked and served amid quiet surroundings that carried memory back half a decade to the Paris that was, the Paris that nevermore will be.... At nine precisely he paid off a taxicab at the corner of Ninety-fifth Street.
Take taxicab and fifty dollars. If you have only fifty dollars the filet of sole Marguery is very good. Brooklyn Bridge. Terrible. And their auction is worse. When you have visited all these places, it will probably be time to take the train to your school.
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