The Owl Taxi - Taxi Library

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devoured it. It was sufficiently baffling. The tone
was friendly, but there was not the slightest reference
to the ride home the night
Greg was relieved.
before. On the whole
"What did you do to poor Henry? He came back
from his visit to you in a fit of the black sulks and has
been lecturing me ever since. Men are so trying! I'm
sorry I had no luck with the l.b.b. I anxiously await
word from you. Francisco says he is going out of town
this afternoon, but gives us no hint of his destination.
He says he'll be back day after to-morrow, and then
we'll all go home. I am distracted with anxiety and
completely at sea.
"Have you any news?
"Amy W."
"What's orders for the afternoon?" asked Hickey.
"Shall I try to pick up a httle trade until 4.45 ?"
Greg was standing with a hand on the cab, lost to
his surroundings. His plan was beginning to take
shape. He shook his head. "No time for that.
Hickey," he said suddenly, "can you
mons' car, the Pack-Arrow?"
"Sure!"
drive Pa Sim-
"Good! Then I'll want you to change with him.
You can tell the ladies when you come back that your
own car broke down, see? I'll take the flivver because
I know its ways."
First Greg had Hickey take him to a firm of sta-
tioners, where after a somewhat lengthy search
through
the stock he found a loose-leaf note-book
bound in black seal that at least in a general way resembled
the famous little black book. This Greg