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To be whirled along through the crowded streets of London in a taxi-cab for the first time in one's life must needs be a somewhat disconcerting, even alarming experience, and Innocent was the poor little prey of so many nervous fears during her journey to Kensington in this fashion, that she could think of nothing and realise nothing except that at any moment it seemed likely she would be killed.
He filled in the cheque, signed his name with a flourish and handed the pen to Crewe. Crewe put his name beneath, saw that the cheque was made payable to bearer, and handed the book to the colonel. "Here, Pinto." The colonel detached the form and blotted it. "Take a taxi-cab, see Ferguson, bring the money straight back here.
Wolf had some six or seven large books about him, and alternated his plunges into them with animated whispered conversations with a silver-headed old man, two hours ago an utter stranger, but always henceforth to be affectionately quoted by Wolf as a friend. They indulged in the extravagance of a taxi-cab for the home trip.
And she's got a clear start, too." Starmidge turned sharply on the superintendent. "Got any clue to where she's gone?" he demanded. "She's gone amongst five hundred thousand other men and women," replied Polke ruefully. "I've found out that much. Drove off in a taxi-cab to Ecclesborough, as soon as Miss Fosdyke had been here this morning.
Walter aided Nan out of the alley. The policeman carried Pearl out into the back street and to the nearest drug store. There she was revived, and Linda telephoned for a taxi-cab to take them both home. The rich girl had little to say to the Masons, or Nan and Bess. And certainly the four friends said nothing to her.
A baronet, who knew how to furnish, and whose wife gave delightful small parties, was next door but three. A noted novelist had just moved there from a flat in Queen Anne's Mansions. In fact, there was a cachet on Kensington Square. And though it was rather far out, you can go almost anywhere in ten minutes if you can afford to take a taxi-cab.
But Wharton motioned him back; and when again he turned to look the man still stood where they had parted. Two minutes later an empty taxi-cab came swiftly toward him and, as it passed, the driver lifted his hand from the wheel and with his thumb motioned behind him. "That's one of the men," said Nolan, "that started with Mr. Rumson and Hewitt from Delmonico's."
Edward Henry's taxi-cab in that Square seemed like a homeless cat that had strayed into a dog-show. At the exact instant, when the taxi-cab came to rest under the massive portico of Wilkins's, a chamberlain in white gloves bravely soiled the gloves by seizing the vile brass handle of its door. He bowed to Edward Henry and assisted him to alight on to a crimson carpet.
"That's where you and me don't agree," said the policeman. "I came to the conclusion this morning that we don't ask the reason why enough not by 'alf. Now if somebody did as you say, and started collectin' policemen, what would be the reason?" "Reason?" shouted the taxi-man. "Don't arsk me for a reason." He turned to his taxi-cab and jerked the starting handle violently.
"There it is," he said; "if you want to write to the author she will forward any letters to him." Harrington stared at the pencilled direction for a moment in silence. He remembered it of course he remembered it! it was the very address given to the driver of the taxi-cab in which the girl with whom he had travelled to London more than a year ago had gone, as it seemed, out of his sight.
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