d to fill my pipe, and I saw the
woman, if woman it was, walk across the square and get into another cab."

"If you haven't anything else to do," hinted Jack, "suppose you take us
to Furnam Square now."

Within a very few minutes the three friends were gazing out of a cab
window upon the square. It looked like a very quiet residence section.

"There was another cab here, you say, that took your last 'fare' from
this square?" asked Jack.

"Yes; there is a fellow who has a regular stand here. It's his cab,"
replied Medway.

"Let us know, then, when that particular driver gets back here," begged
Jack. "We'll sit here in your rig and wait."

Medway grinned. Waiting, as well as driving, meant money for him.

Fully an hour and a half dragged by. Jack was beginning to wonder if
it would not be better to give up this present clue to the chase, when
Medway, leaning down from his box, called quietly.

"That's the other fellow and his rig, coming back into the square now."

"As soon as he stops," directed Benson, "drive us over alongside. Don't
say anything to him. Let me do the talking."

In a moment more Jack was out on the sidewalk, talking earnestly with
the driver just returned.

"You've had a long trip of it," guessed Jack, noting the warm condition
of the horses.

"You bet," nodded the other driver.

"Just got back from taking the tall woman in gray somewhere."

"Yep. But do you call it 'somewhere'? I'd call it most anywhere."

"How far was it?" asked Jack.

"What do you want to know for?" demanded the Jehu, looking with sudden
sharpness at his questioner.

"Because we'd like to go to the same place that you took the woman,"
returned Benson, promptly.

"Huh! I took her for three dollars. I wouldn't go over that trip
again for less'n five."

"We'll pay the five, and be glad to," proposed Jack Benson, displaying
some money. "More than that, if you play right fair with us, we'll put
another five on top of the first, just as a little present to your
horses."

"You'd better use the young gentlemen right, Jim," advised Medway.
"They're good fellows, and they pay well."

"Why do you want to go where I took that last party?" questioned Jim,
with a shrewd look.

"One of the things that the second five-dollar note pays you for is
asking no questions," retorted Jack. "Do you want to take up our
offer?"

"Yes; if you'll give me fifteen minutes to rest and water the horses,"
agreed Jim.

"Th