When I reached him he was groping about frantically in the empty cab, and giving vent to the finest assorted collection of oaths that ever I listened to.

There was no sign or trace of his passenger, and I fear it will be some time before he gets his fare.

On inquiring at Number 13 we found that the house belonged to a respectable paperhanger, named Keswick, and that no one of the name either of Sawyer or Dennis had ever been heard of there." "You don't mean to say," I cried, in amazement, "that that tottering, feeble old woman was able to get out of the cab while it was in motion, without either you or the driver seeing her ?" "Old woman be damned!" said Sherlock Holmes, sharply.

"We were the old women to be so taken in.

It must have been a young man, and an active one, too, besides being an incomparable actor.