9The four men disentangled themselves from their prisoners, and squeezed into the seat of the taxi-cab. d**k and Plug were left lying on the floor at their feet. Plug endeavoured to kick open the door of the cab, and was stopped by a brutal kick from one of the men. Plug’s hands were bound behind him like d**k’s, and his mouth gagged. Plug and d**k exchanged eloquent looks. They drove for a considerable distance; but d**k, taking a mental note of every turn, figured that they had made two complete circles. He deduced from that they had not really gone very far from the point where they had been seized.
The cab stopped at last, and one of the men got out. He reported that the coast was clear, whereupon d**k and Plug were seized, and hustled across a sidewalk into a house. Hawkins was there
