BY HULBERT FOOTNER
AUTHOR OF
"The Deaves Affair," "The Substitute Millionaire,"
"The Fur Bringers," "Thieves' Wit,"
"The Woman from Outside," etc.
A. L. BURT COMPANY
Publishers New York
Published by arrangement with George H. Doran Company
COPYRIGHT, 1921,
BY GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY
PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
TO
G. M. F.
WHO FILLED THE TANK THREE
TIMES A DAY AND KEPT THE
CHILDREN MODERATELY QUIET.
CONTENTS
CHAPTER
I The Transfer
II Greg's First Fare
III Greg's Second Fare
IV In the House on Ninth Street
V The Taxi Yard
VI Greg's Rival
VII The Undertaker
VIII The Hold-up
IX The Flivver as a Post-Office
X Amy's Story
XI The Ride Home
XII What the Little Black Book Contained
XIII De Socotra Hires T7011 Again
XIV Through the Streets
XV Nina
XVI The "Psychopathic Sanitarium"
XVII The Young Man with the Little Black Moustache
XVIII Blossom's Report
XIX The Abduction
XX Exit Senor Saunders
XXI Up-stairs and Down
XXII Nemesis
XXIII Conclusion
At eleven o'clock of a moist night in December,Gregory Parr was making his way far westwardon Twenty-third Street. At his right hand stretchedthat famous old row of dignified dwellings withpilasters and little front yards, and ahead of him wasTenth Avenue, the stronghold of the Irish. The wetpavements glistened under the street lamps, and thesmell of influenza was in the air. The street wasdeserted except for a cross-town car at long intervals,hurling itself blithely through the night on a flat wheel.
Greg was on his way to the Brevard Line pier atthe foot of the street to take passage on the greatSavoia, premier steamship of her day and on thisparticular trip the "Christmas ship." The Savoia ran astrue to the hour as a railway train, and was scheduledto leave at one A.M. in order to make the best railconnections. There was no reason why Greg shouldhave walked to the pier except that at the last momenthis heart was loath to leave little old New York, andeven the least interesting of her streets called to him.As he walked he communed with himself somewhatafter this fashion: "Lord! I didn't know the old burgmeant so much to me till I made up m