"Take the second and follow me.
Then he cannot trace us." They were off, leaving the baffled shadow only time to take the numbers of the cab.

Constance had thought of that.

She stopped and Carlton joined her.

After a short walk they took another cab.
He looked at her inquiringly, but she said nothing.

In her eyes he saw the same fire that blazed when she had asked him if there was no way to avoid discovery and had suggested it herself in the forgery.