For some time we waited and still she did not come out. Had she
telephoned to Alfonso and had he gone alone? Perhaps she had
already been out and had taken this method of detaining us,
knowing that we would wait to watch her.
It must have been a mixture of both motives, for at length I was
rewarded by seeing her come cautiously out of the rear entrance of
the hotel alone and start to walk hurriedly up the street. I
signalled to Craig who shot down and picked me up.
By this time the Senora had reached a public cab stand and had
engaged a hack.
Sinking back in the shadows of the top, which was up, Craig
directed our driver to follow the hack cautiously, keeping a
couple of blocks behind. There was some satisfaction, though
slight, in it, at least. We felt the possibility of the trail
leading somewhere, now.
On uptown the hack went, while we kept discreetly in the rear. We
had reached a part of the city where it was sparsely populated,
when the hack suddenly turned and doubled back on us.
There was not time for us to turn and we trusted that by shrinking
back in the shadow we might not be observed.
As the hack passed us, however, the Senora leaned out until it was
perfectly evident that she must recognize us.
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