Believing that he could accomplish no more, and certain that Patsy was not far away, Chick descended from the carriage, lifted his hat, and walked away.
The hansom cab, containing the young woman, immediately went over to Broadway and, turning up that street, was driven quite rapidly.
But it had not gone the space of a block when another cab drove after it, and Chick saw a hand wave from the window.
Jumping across the street, Chick found a cab on the corner, and, hastily calling the driver, said:
“Follow that cab, and don’t lose sight of it. If you kill your horse, I’ll pay for it.”
And an instant later, and as the clock over the Herald office sounded the hour of two, he was following in hot haste the cab containing Patsy, which, in turn, was following the one occupied by the young woman.
CHAPTER XX.
A FEMALE BOXER.
The cabs pursued their way up Broadway until Forty-second Street was reached, when they turned, the leading cab going up that street to Fifth Avenue.
As the one containing the young woman turned the corner into that avenue it halted. A young man stepped out from the shadow and entered the cab.
Patsy’s cab was at a discreet distance behind it, yet Patsy thought that the young man was the same one with whom, earlier in the evening, on Broadway, he had seen the young woman when she made the change in her hair.