[Number Seventeen by Louis Tracy]@TWC D-Link bookNumber Seventeen CHAPTER III 4/31
But his aspect was almost forgotten in the far stranger discovery that the car was empty.
Both windows were open, and the bright lights of a corner shop flashed into the interior, yet not a soul was visible.
Moreover, the car sped on unhesitatingly, stopping some two hundred yards ahead. So far as Theydon could tell, no one alighted.
He jotted down the number--XY 1314--on his shirt cuff. "Did you happen to see that car waiting near the house I came from ?" he said to the taxi man, who, of course, provided an interested audience of one. "Yes, sir," was the ready answer.
"It's not a London car.
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