Stopping only to borrow fifty francs for expenses from the cashier's wicket, Martin hurried his friend into a taximeter cab and gave the brief direction: "Pont de Neuilly."
"Swirling Waters"
Max Rittenberg
"Ten minutes as near as a touch, according to the way the taximeter jumped while I was waiting.
"The Grell Mystery"
Frank Froest
I had checked off eight of the Andersons on my list, without result, and the taximeter showed something over nineteen dollars, when the driver drew up at the curb.
"The Window at the White Cat"
Mary Roberts Rinehart