'Dark eyes and hair?'
'Exact.'
'A broad black hat with plumes, a red veil, and four-in-hand tie?'
'Upon my word, she had 'em all.'
'I knew it; but go on.'
'I can't, not very far at least. I just kept myself from swearing while I sat and saw those three so sociable up there, and I not in it. Before I got to the landing I had seen the woman trip away.'
'Toward the Plaza?'
'Precisely. Everybody seemed going that way. It was almost time for the infanta to appear. When I set foot on shore I made for that bridge. I had seen them start slowly on after the woman; but when I got upon the bridge I could just see the hat of your friend Smug in a jam some distance ahead, near the Electricity Building, and Bob, the eel, had vanished once more.'
'At what time was this?'
He named the time, and then I told him how I had encountered the little brunette, lost her, and found her again, and of her agile leap at the bridge.