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The fare would cost all of that, but he felt that on this particular afternoon he could not have endured the subway. When the taximetre reached his limit he must get out and walk. With this his mind drifted off into one of its characteristic day-dreams.... In this dream he discovered that the metre was going too fast the driver had dishonestly adjusted it.
In a voice that I fear was broken I spoke of clothes for the day's wear which I had laid out for him the night before. He waved a hand bravely at us and sank back into his pillow as my new employer led me forth. There had been barely a glance between us to betoken the dreadfulness of the moment. At our door I was pleased to note that a taximetre cab awaited us.
He did not tell him that the Cricket had come with a message to him and that he was answering it in person, as it was intended that he should a message written six weeks before his arrival in France. There were many things that Chase did not explain to Archibald James. "You're looking fine, Chase, old man. Did you a lot of good out there. You're as brown as that Arab in the taximetre back there.
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