The Motor Girls

when her car and Jack's, having been sent at a fast speed down the roa

r. "It's farther on. It's right nea

ead again. "This is where we nearly ran into th

Jack from the rear. "I don't want to run i

spect to you, Walter, of course," she added with a bright look up into the fa

ll," was her escort's reply. "Jack

the irrepressible. "Push on. We want to get t

. Here was where Ed had alighted to fix Cora's car. His small machine had on a set of peculiar tires, and

the dusty stretch. They went over every inch of the ground, particularly in the vicinity of the

pped farther back

n minutes they walked up and down the road, some d

was Walter's suggest

ewarded by the welcome sight of a brow

use," s

a little longer

well make the entire trip to New City, and then reverse and go to Chelto

too bad we haven't Sid and Ida along to help hunt for it. And the Robinson girls, and Mary. The more ey

now as it woul

said Walter. "That is, i

can't get enough of my new

cour

Chelton and keep a lookout

brother's reply. "I wish I had some one to ride

ed Cora, "to have a person with y

omebody," added

Don't joke. Even a stran

an individual came in sight around a bend in

said Jack in a low voice

r not liking his look

s Lem

when he ran his auto into the

er n

ing twenty thousand dollars lying alongside the road. He might not admit that he saw it

looking for," suggested Cora with

nd then he'll know it's got everything in it but

it's the best plan to ask him to ride back with you, and have him watch one side of the road.

ted Jack. "It's only garden soil on Lem

e you can do better than ask him to ride back to Chelton with you. Needn't be too speci

assented Jack

n, with a reddish growth of whiskers which he never seemed to take the trouble t

as not to be commended. In short, he was a "shiftless" ch

" called Jac

glance at Jack. It was not often that the young and wealthy Jack

Jack, trying to make

n. Then he turned his gaze on Cora, and the beautiful girl coul

n around," declared J

here you're heade

and I'm tired, too. I've had

he blacksmith shop?"

nk that?" asked Lem qu

d, faded from his face. "No, I wasn't workin' there," he went on

ck with me?" asked Jack, who

do, if you're

nute. Go ahead, Cora and Walte

and, running in a half circle, st

ese here kind of wagons," remarked Lem wit

m, I'm not going to give you a

He had expected something like

t any money

n Jack. "I only want you to

for Su

long th

er? Lose part of

pocketbook

Lem, with such suddenn

d. "You don't mean

d. He shuffled his

" he said at length wi

in the habit of findi

s it, and wh

tion of what was in it. "A friend of mine dropped it along here, and we're helping him hunt for it.

voice sound friendly, b

the road, and I'll keep watc

ith a leer. "I don't believe we'll fin

ff slowly. Cora and Walter also started, and the search

, and Jack was too anxious to find the wallet to care for the distraction of talk. Several times he

d Lem asked to be set do

ked Jack

they'd never speak to me again," and Lem grinned and showed all his ye

e Cora will

y, "maybe she will-or

peculiar that Ja

you mea

njured air. "Only if a pocketbook is lost,

ugh the streets of Chelton, after the unsuccessful search,

ning a corner, Jack

" he

s a momentary look

ou-" h

ly shook