Answer:
The narrator was taken away by the personality and wit of the hack-driver, who even fools him to mint some money for himself. The narrator gets so engrossed with the man' s cheerful gossips that he fails to realise that the person, who was ignoring and avoiding the summons was the hack-driver himself. The hack-driver was Oliver Lutkins himself.
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