I put the whole thing impatiently away from me, and turned to other work; but I found I could not conquer a certain deep-seated nervousness; so at last I locked my desk, told the boy I would not be back, and took a cab for a long drive through the park.

I struggled against it for a few moments, then gave it up, hailed a cab, and settled back against the cushions with a sigh of relief.

" He paid his bill and they found a cab.

I might drive a hansom cab or an omnibus, better men than I have done worse.

And, still smiling, I left the cab, paid the driver, and mounted to my rooms.

He would dismiss the taxi-cab at one of the hotels bordering on Hampstead Heath, for they were the resort of hundreds of visitors on summer nights, and his actions would thus easily escape notice.

Several times in the early dawn Flack had seen two or three ladies in evening dress come down the carriage drive and enter a taxi-cab which had been summoned by telephone.

He called up a cab and went at once to his rooms at the Bruxtelle; and Fogerty followed him.

"Have you really ordered a motor cab?"

I stopped the cab in the King's Road, and getting out, had another good look round to see that I was not being followed.

Then I turned down this street, hoping to pick up a cab in the Champ-Élysées.

" Leglosse had already engaged a cab, and when I joined him I discovered that he had also brought a Sicilian police official with him.

He gave one glance at the contents of the letter, asked for his A.B.C. Railway Guide, and ordered him (Robertson) to pack his bag at once and fetch him a cab.

Looking out discreetly, I saw the cab containing Armand stop also, and that gentleman alighted and paid the driver.

Bidding the cabman to wait, accordingly, he rang the door-bell, and when the butler appeared, requested him to pay the cab, adding that it was all right, as he was one of the guests invited to the dance.

" He himself got a cab, too, and went off to Gresham Street, more puzzled and doubtful than ever.

The man who hired the cab was already inside.

A horrid certainty sprang to life in me that he'd followed my cab from the Foreign Office, to see where I would go.

So we naturally took the last one, all three of us crowding on to the rear seat in order to watch the cabs in front.

" "I must 'ave a cab or something," said his wife, hysterically.

Fortunately for me, Mr. Bradlaugh had a splendid collection of works on the subject, and before he left England he brought to me two cabs full of books, French and English, from all points of view, aristocratic, ecclesiastical, democratic, and I studied these diligently and impartially until the French Revolution became to me as a drama in which I had myself taken part, and the actors therein became personal friends and foes.

It would have saved a deal of trouble," added his lordship, while the other hurried off, "if I could have caught that cab to-day.

"He corroborated the evidence of James Buckland as to the hour when the gentleman in the fur coat had engaged him, and having filled his cab in and out with luggage, had told him to wait.

However, it is less trying to do this than it was in other days, as one runs no risk from flying motor-cabs.

" He went to the back o' the cab, and afore I knew wot had 'appened the 'orse had got a flick over the head with the whip and was going along at a gallop.