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He fumbled under his overcoat for loose silver, drew out a handful and paid off the taximan. Sometimes walking in the gutter in order to avoid the throngs upon the pavement, regardless of the fact that his glossy dress-boots were becoming spattered with mud, Gray hurried off in pursuit of the pair.
He trusted himself no further, but, clapping his hat on his head, walked out to the waiting cab. "Back to Limehouse police station," he directed rapidly. "Lor lumme!" muttered the taximan. "Where are you goin' to after that, guv'nor? It's a bit off the map." "I'm going to hell!" rapped Kerry, suddenly thrusting his red face very near to that of the speaker. "And you're going to drive me!"
"I wish to speak to him." Mrs. Brian walked slowly from the room and could be heard entering one further along the passage. An angry snarling, suggesting that of a wild animal disturbed in its lair, proclaimed the arousing of Taximan Thomas Brian. Then Mrs. Brian's voice mingled with that of her husband, and both became subdued.
There he found Sowerby, very red faced and humid, and a taximan who sat stolidly surveying the Embankment from the window. "Hullo!" cried Dunbar; "he's turned up, then?" "No, he hasn't," replied Sowerby with a mild irritation. "But we know where to find him, and he ought to lose his license." The taximan turned hurriedly.
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