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Updated: June 10, 2025
To the taxi-driver he gave a number that was not the Museum address, but that of his own bachelor apartment on Park Avenue. It was still raining as he got into the taxi; he held the valise tightly on his lap, looking into it occasionally and gruffly ordering the chauffeur to drive slowly.
Adna dared neither to go nor to stay. Suddenly a chauffeur of an empty limousine, fearing to lose a chance to swear at a taxi-driver, kept his head turned to the left and steered straight for the spot where the Thropps awaited their doom. Adna had his wife pendent from one arm and a valise or two from the other. Kedzie carried a third valise.
"Here is Madame," said he. The chauffeur saluted. The car was closed. "Will Madame have the carriage open or closed?" "Closed." Having paid the taxi-driver, Audrey entered the car, and as she did so, she threw over her shoulder: "Hôtel du Danube." While the chauffeur started the engine, the shopman with brilliant smiles delivered the music and the bag. The door clicked.
The old trapper's voice was stinging with sarcasm. "They nev' fin' heem. But the woman she was in a taxi. Ah, oui. She could pass, just at the moment. She could put in the mind of the jury the fact that there was a quarrel, while she preten' to help M'sieu Houston. But the taxi-driver no, they nev' fin' heem!" "Let's wait, Ba'tiste." "Oh ah, oui."
Spike replaced the watch, blew on his numb fingers in a futile effort to restore warmth, slipped his hands back into a pair of heavy but, on this night, entirely inadequate driving-gloves, and gave himself over to a mental rebellion against the career of a professional taxi-driver. "Worst night I've ever known," he growled to himself; and he was not far wrong. Midnight!
It was took out ten minutes syne. A man brought the ticket and took it away on his shoulder." "Thank you. There's been a mistake, but the blame's mine. My man mistook my orders." Then he returned to the now nervous taxi-driver. "I've taken it up with the station-master and he's putting the police on. You'll likely be wanted, so I gave him your number.
They were forced to devote several minutes to intense concentration, for if such an order had been given there must have been a reason for it. "Somep'm 'bouta coat," suggested the taxi-man. That was it. Peter's overcoat and hat. He had left them at Delmonico's. Having decided this, they disembarked from the taxi and strolled toward the entrance arm in arm. "Hey!" said the taxi-driver. "Huh?"
The place was infested with consumers, and there were still, so it was said, servants living in some of the older houses. A butler had been caught one night in a thick shrubbery beside one of the gloomy streets. "We alighted at one of the most sombre of the houses, and our taxi-driver, with evident relief, made off in the darkness.
They had massacred his beautiful play, and, doing so, had not even made a success of it by their own sordid commercial lights. Business at Baltimore had been rotten! That meant more expense, further columns of figures with "frames" and "rehl" in front of them! He staggered into the station. "Hey!" cried the taxi-driver. Otis Pilkington turned. "Sixty-five cents, mister, if you please!
She appreciated in a dim, vague way the skill of the taxi-driver, who seemed to be able to grope his way through and around any obstruction of traffic; and it was not until she found the cab traversing a country road that she had any suspicion that all was not well. Even then her doubts were allayed by her recognition of certain landmarks which told her she was on the Hertford Road.
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