And as it swallowed them up we, who had come in a taxicab looking for the war, knew that we had found it; and knew, too, that our chances of ever seeing that taxicab again were most exceeding small.

Can he adopt the pose of an Adelphi hero, with a scornful smile on his lips, when a yard away from him a hole large enough to bury a taxicab is torn out of the earth, and when the building against which he has been standing is suddenly knocked into a ridiculous ruin?

If it were true that the woman had entered the taxicab alone, that the man had come in later, and that the murder had been committed by the woman in the cab before reaching the railroad crossing, the thing must undoubtedly have been prearranged to the smallest fractional detail.

To solve the question he called a taxicab and in a few minutes gave his card to the Merrick butler with a request to see Miss Louise.

Here's my niece drives a taxicab and is proud of it, my own daughter designs underclothes and sells them at a shop in Sloane Street to any one who comes along, and my boy, who ought to go into the Guards, prefers to go into Roger Kendrick's office.

" He engaged a taxicab and instructed the driver to wait for him at the corner of Geary and Stockton Streets.

I calculated if at Hal I had luck in finding a taxicab, by lunch time I should be in the Palace Hotel.

He made his way back to the club-house by another angle, gained his taxicab unobserved, and drove back to Ostend.

But some day when the powers that be Demobilise the likes of me (Some seven years hence, as I infer, My actual exit will occur) Swift o'er the Irish Sea I'll fly, Yea, though each wave be mountains high, Nor pause till I descend to grab Oxford's surviving taxicab. Then "Home!"

He hailed a taxicab and was hurried to his office.

At the door, Katie, who evidently had heard the taxicab, stood smiling broadly.

How had she managed to leave the taxicab?

They conceive the idea of making a single taxicab do double dutyand, knowing that the driver is across the street drinking coffee and getting warmWarren gets into the cab from the blind side, Mrs. Lawrence returns to the waiting room as the accommodation rolls in, she picks up Warren's suit-case which had been left there, steps to the curb and summons the cab, in which Warren is hiding all the time.

The air of the cross street was stale and stagnant; from it rose exhalations of rotting fruit, the gases of an open subway, the smoke of passing taxicabs.

A little later he secured a taxicab and drove to the office of the Continental Film Manufacturing Company.

Two stockbrokers, Roger Kendrick and his friend Maurice White, who had escaped from the City a little earlier than usual, and had shared a taxicab up west, congratulated themselves upon having found a quiet and shady seat where iced drinks were procurable and the crush was not so great.

" At the next corner they signaled a taxicab, and in a short time they were set down in Christie Place.

" He smiled confidently as he stopped a taxicab and handed her in.

Philip summoned a taxicab, sat far back in the corner, and drove to his rooms.

After looking at his watch he rushed out and arrested a passing taxicab.

He took a taxicab and drove as far as Knocke.

Securing these precious papers, then, without delay we chartered a rickety red taxicab for the day; and piling in we told the driver to take us eastward as far as he could go before the outposts turned us back.

He got down in front of a big hotel and chose a taxicab from the waiting rank, exhorting the driver to make his best speed to the station.

"It's pretty enough, but it wouldn't fly very far," commented Roy teasingly, "sort of aërial taxicab, I'd call it.