"Perhaps the senor would care to question him." I replied that I should like very much to do so, and we accordingly went out into the street together.

It appeared that the cabman remembered his fares perfectly, the more so by reason of the fact that the blind man had sworn at him for not using greater speed in reaching the city.

He had driven them to some furnished lodgings kept by his cousin, he said, and was proceeding to recommend them to us, when I cut him short by informing him that we had already decided upon a hotel.

We thereupon entered the vehicle, he mounted the box, and we set off.

From the moment that we had set foot ashore Miss Kitwater had been growing more and more nervous.