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 I told her there wasn't no such number,' said the man. 'Why, a number like that would be clear out to Newark!'

It's close to the University,' I said; 'because Mr. Kirby is a professor, and walks to classes.'

"They didn't seem to be interested in my conversation. 'Couldn't be no such number,' protested the cabman, in a sort of a hurt tone.

Well,' said the heavy man, looking snippy, 'she wants to go out there and ride around for a while, so you take her;—and say,' he called, 'charge her for whatever trouble you have.'

"That last aroused some more enthusiasm in me, all in a minute. 'See here,' I said, 'you agreed in the first place to take me anywhere in town for a dollar.'

Well, lady,' he said, in an exasperated tone, 'we can't drive you around all night, looking for some wrong number, for any dollar!'

But it isn't my fault if you don't know the town,' I said, 'and if 1944 Iuka Avenue is right, I don't see why I should pay you more than a dollar.'

"He grinned an awfully unpleasant grin. 'That's right, lady,' he said. 'If he finds that