There was a fiacre in the courtyard, into which he entered, together with the three sergents de ville.

At a turning in the Rue St Antoine he glanced behind, and noticed that the sergents de ville only followed the fiacre at a considerable distance.

" "Please wait one moment only;" the detective touched a bell, and briefly ordered two fiacres to the door at once.

The tardy winter daylight had scarcely come before we were jolting in a fiacre over the stony streets of Versailles.

"You'll call me up or run into the office when you get to New York?" "Oh, yes!" He walked with her to the lift, said good-bye and returned to the fiacre with the tinkling bell.