Again they choked back their breath; shiveringly they felt his eyes upon them.

And, indeed, his eyes were--interestedly; for to that Hibernian, with his native whimsicality, they suggested the somewhat unusual phenomenon of the same person out walking with herself.

But he did not speak.
At the head of Union Square they caught a roving taxicab.

Their next thought, after bare escape, was necessarily concerned with shelter, a hiding-place.

To the chauffeur's "Where to, ladies ?" Mrs.De Peyster said, "Hotel Dauphin." The instinct, the Mrs.De Peyster of habit, which was beneath her surface of agitation, said the Dauphin because the Dauphin was quite the most select hotel in New York.