The attitude of these two young men and their chauffeur was perfectly correct, and the policeman's views had been strengthened materially by the tell-tale tokens he had noted on the gray car, which, however, he had not thought fit to mention.

If Steingall had attended the supper in the Plaza he must have convinced himself that there was nothing unusual, or, at any rate, doubtful, about the queer fact that a man who was mixed up in a remarkable murder should have gone straight from the scene of the tragedy and got married.
Just to dispel a little of the mist that befogged his brain, he waited a while and then said: "Which side of the car was opposite the doorway when those two men attacked Mr.Hunter ?" "The left.

The car had entered the street from Broadway." "Why do you ask ?" inquired Devar, instantly alive to the queerness of this alteration of topics.
"My mind went back to the job we have in hand," said the roundsman readily.

"I was wondering just what sort of glimpse Mr.Curtis obtained of the chauffeur.

Of course, I see now that he was looking at the man exactly under similar conditions when we made that stop at 42nd Street." Thus, unknown to either of the parties to the alliance, a minor crisis was averted, because it may safely be conceded that the hard-headed policeman would have refused then and there to accept any sort of statement from such a lunatic as John Delancy Curtis, if he were given a full, true, and particular account of the night's proceedings while being whirled up Fifth Avenue in a fast moving automobile.
Romance, if it is to be accepted without question, requires the setting of a comfortable armchair or tree-shaded nook in a summer garden.
There, forgetting and forgotten by the world, man or maid may indeed be carried far on the Magic Carpet of Tangu, but, when served out by two strangers to a prosaic policeman seated in a humming car, and bound Heaven knew whither long after midnight, it is apt to savor of the moon and witchcraft.
Away up the straight vista of Fifth Avenue sped the two cars.