I wondered that so sensible a woman
should buy gloves at least two sizes too small for her. I think she was
ashamed of them herself, for she tried to hide them after she saw me
looking."
"This was in the cab?"
"Yes."
"Where you didn't speak a word?"
"Not a word."
"Though she seemed so very much cut up?"
"No, she didn't seem cut up; only tired."
"How tired?"
"She sat with her head pressed against the side of the cab."
"And a little turned away?"
"Yes."
"As if she shrank from you?"
"A little so."
"Did she brighten when the carriage stopped?"
"She started upright."
"Did you help her out?"
"No, I had promised not to touch her."
"She jumped out after you?"
"Yes."
"And never spoke?"
"Not a word."
Gerridge opened the door, motioned for the manager to follow, and, once
in the hall, remarked to that gentleman:
"I should like to see the boy who took her bag and was with them when she
slipped away."
CHAPTER II
THE LADY IN NUMBER THREE
The boy was soon found and proved to be more observing in matters of
dress than Mr. Ransom. He described with apparent accuracy both the color
and cut of the garments worn by the lady who had flitted away so
mysteriously. The former was brown, all brown; and the latter was of the
tailor-made variety, very natty and becoming.
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