The Motor Girls

to his sister's aid. "I never knew Cora

shocked,

ar and put her on th

ll

r head up,"

ed Diddick, turning around in

's hands, while Walter held

that tree," spoke Walter.

answered Parks, st

oducing a collapsible one from a poc

est on his hasty trip. Jack managed to get a little between Cora's lips, and it revived h

," she declared as she

e car and sit dow

er limply got into the

water, and present

said with a wan smile. "But when I sa

le. "Who would ever have thought o

d fraught with

the tool-box, Wa

ump and the lifting-j

"I guess that's what shocked you as much as anything, Co

should have been there-in my t

dded Jack. "What can

's c

lost?" asked Diddick. "We

cked the wallet from the road where it h

upernatural had put it into my tool-box

it," spoke Jack quickly. "Yet who in

ly, leaving the s

sed Cora, after a quick look at her brother.

" interrupted jack. "You pumped up a tire just before the race, so th

ound the wallet, taken out the money and bond

in a curious place," r

id," observed C

hesi

l say it-before some

ks mighty sus

t him. He seemed to challenge a

d to say that," spoke Walt

nce," fin

identally, some one got the money, all

t he'll think

ly that some one found or stole his wallet and

added Walter. "W

o, hes

hat?" as

, and only pretended

with

Cora. "But come, let's

e the first

l right?" asked

I never fainted bef

you burned your hand on t

was a good

a period o

I suppose I may as well finish," remarked Walt

e later. The gay members of the mandolin club had little to say, and when they did attempt a pleasantry t

ith a trace of bitterness in his tones, "i

f your car," said Diddick jestin

" and he subsided, while every one tried to talk at once to

her. Who could it have been who tried to injure her in this way by

alter was driving her car for her, every incident that she could remembe

Mary permission to go for a ride with such well-paying customers as the Kimballs and the Robinson twins. Next Cora tried to analyze Sid's actions, also those of Ida, and she e

had placed the empty pocketboo

r wanted to accompany them, but Cora insisted

nt to question y

n club were left at the Kimball

artled by the news. The

ave anything,"

u want to remar

course. What e

o put too fine a point upon

r w

" said Ja

-look here-Oh, what nonsense! I hope, Cora, that you haven't for on

she finished quickly. "Only J

world for the thief to throw the empty pocketbook into your tool-box as

not a

hief is around Chelton-that's evide

errupted Jack

hen your car was halted momentarily in the street, a

e to find the thi

smile. "But I'll give the police this

'll be at home," declared Cora with a

old me all that

k home, while Ed, went to communic

e, Cora happened to look in the window of the millinery shop where Mary Downs was em

lia could use two apprentices. I wonder if Mary has been

in the crowd talk indicating that the news of the finding of the empty wallet was

arked Angelina Bott, a sentimental sort of girl, to

ng so loudly that Cora could not help but hear, she ad

retort on his lips, stepped forward, but h

Jack," s

good as sayin

k, there will be more

He glared at Alice Haven, who looke

ail was sorted, and there was a rush on the part of the

ned aside. There were tears in her eyes

ing figure hurrying along. It was that of Sid Wilcox. And from an

aw Sid hand Ida something that showed white in the gle