The Motor Girls
the auto would crash into the train, Cora's quick eye had seen
me, by any means at her command. There was but one
horrible an accident as if she collided with the train. To the right there was a
wn deeply into the mud. To run into the fence might mean that one of the rails would become entangled in the mechanism
wn the length of the
at she wanted! A
as brought to too sudden a stop in the mud? They would all be
the wheel Cora sent t
r. She had to hold her sister from being tossed but,
engineer of the train now tooting his whi
la
d a clump of willow trees it surged, throwing a spray of water in advance. Then
oung man, with a fishing-pole in his hands. She saw a spray of water, cast up by the aut
condition of her two chums, and, last, but not
and looked at the water fl
"I-I thought we were do
. "I never want to go thro
Cora fervently. "
afrai
n her hand, and dashed it into the white
re we-" s
laugh, though her voice trembled and her hands shook
enough," spo
the middle of Campbell's Pond. And we won't have to swim out, either. It's
he pillow out," added
ad to get a duckin
s who got a ducking," said Cora as
inquire
figure was standing up. The man with the fishing-pole was wip
zabeth. "I should think w
ldn't help it," said Cora, standin
he auto. The water was not very deep, hardly up to his knees.
ng, each of the girls
m. There was actually a little globule of mud on the end of his nose. He seemed as much amused ov
together certain about the state of the auto. "I'm afraid we've been v
very plucky, if I may be permitted to say so. I-er-I almost said my prayers when I saw you racing d
refused to work. This is a ne
, I know a little about cars. Perhaps I c
oung fisherman cranked up, from a very insecure and muddy footing
s all right
eel and threw in the low speed gear. There was a grinding sound, the Whirlwind seemed to shiver and shake, and then it began to move. A few seconds l
e young man. "I guess
t that brake. Per
t to introduce her friends and herself. The tw
st have surged into the st
p. "I was just trying to kill time by fishing, but it was a
ner of the auto, imitating the young man's masculine style of
twins. Mr. Foster had a most attractive manner
," he remarked to Co
th Co
I've heard Jack spe
was on
terrupted Elizabeth. She made no secret of
My interest in sports has rather kept me away from society. That
" came a hail
achine came along and drew up alongside the fence which separa
spattered young fellow. "If that isn't
m the car and running across the mead
eal is up,
ou come from?" Jack added as he saw the y
wer, as he looked down at his splattere
s hand. "When I was a youngster, and our big Newfo
big, and I may have just crawled f
een here forever if Mr. F
well, sis. But I told you so! A brand-new, spick-and
th. "We were almost killed!
ngly, "when you start out to save lives, why don't you give a fellow the tip? There's nothi
nantly, "but I don't want anything like it to
running right in it," put in Isabel, her voice
he motor girls so graphically that both Jack and Walter were compelled to admit that Cor
exclaimed Jack, when
have done b
aise indeed," spok
oose nut had fallen between the brake band and the wheel hub, and prevented the band
ready for the roa
ora quietly, but there was a
es rather longer than
ed Jack. "Haven't seen you in an age
ed Ed, with a glance at the mud spots that were now turning t
alter will drive for Cora, in case she is nervo
steer for us," begge
d feel so m
a light laugh. "Is that the way you t
," answered Isabel, giving her friend a little pinch on he
glad that she had come out of th
erman seated himself beside Jack. Then Walter ran Cora's car out of the mir
ldn't have seen you the entire summer," said Jack to Ed a
ou laughing at? Because I said I was busy? Well, I guess I have the busiest kind of business on hand. Say, let me whisper," and he
nan
n, you know. Bank stocks. T
ank stock!" exclaimed Jack in a half
ided to. I'm going over to get it in a day or two. I'm to pay partly in cash, and turn over to them some of my bonds and o
out it," said Jack. "I
age soon, and he will have some cash to invest. But, somehow, there's a prejudice against
ors wouldn't like that. He's a reckless sort. I shouldn't mind his fits of crankiness, if he would only leave girls out. But when he goes in for some kind of mischief h
a level stretch of road and approaching Fisher's store-an "emporium," as the sign called it, and a place where one co
never did know in time. But, at any rate, you could always get soda water-t
nding on the steps of the store, Sidney Wilcox and
ms to me I'm bound to meet all my
k's car and up the
drawling answer. "But what's the
ng down at the mud spots; "but I
it. "Pity to take it all, though. You should
, said something in c
h Sid never turned he
wind. Cora remarked on
and Eli
or-er-Wall Street," said Sid to
that. No chance for
too much of a
Sid. "A fellow might make go
plan to take stock in the new bank? That was a
noticed much of the same manner in Ida, though Jack and Ed were not quite so critical. As for Walter, he did not seem to be giving Ida a thought
he broad store steps; B
Cora with a laugh. "I neve
h interested in the
awfully dry,"
tayed for a moment outside with Ida and Sid. The latter did not introduce Ed to Ida. It was a habit Sid had, of never presenting his
the latter attended college with Jack. That is, he was
finish next year, and I don't intend
'em?" rep
ed toward his car, Id
gh, wondering the while over the identity of the striking-looki
t," was Sid's answer as he began t
, though it didn't always live up to the name, and soon he
stock? I wish he didn't know of it. And I also wonder who that pretty girl was?" For Ida was pretty
d. He was puzzle
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