At this junc­ture in his thoughts a taxi with flag erect turned the corner of the street ahead. Tommy held his breath. Would they hail it?
He drew a sigh of re­lief as they al­lowed it to pass un­chal­lenged. Their course was a zig­zag one de­signed to bring them as quickly as pos­sible to Ox­ford Street. When at length they turned into it, pro­ceed­ing in an east­erly dir­ec­tion, Tommy slightly in­creased his pace