The Motor Maids Across the Continent

so because of seven great oak trees which shaded the circular drive girdling the front lawn. They were fine

scanning the storm-washed landscape now fast drying under the heat of the sun,

never been introduced. The girls had waited, hoping there might be some explanation

he storm and whither he went, they could not even guess. It was like a d

ohontas pawing the ground with her small forefoot, while a groom rubbed her smooth, satin coat with a piece of c

ses in the back while the other was storing a ham

ers to settle themselves in the moto

y is, that if you do, you will probably be making two people happy forever, because I can't seem to get at her in any other way, and I

of farewell and waving of handkerchiefs, the red

h his genial blue-gray eyes and his pleasant smile seem

tea and they sat on cushions on the ground, picnic fashion. It was great fun, and there was much to talk about.

's consent, and they had been putting their heads together to devise a scheme by wh

e, "did you notice anything

of the most normal, well set-up, w

d the girls. "We l

notice how sad

, I thought he s

, at any rate. His hea

l, "he has much too good a ci

e, Miss Campbell

lessly in lov

iful girl," w

a cruel

s a Mo

her marry any o

mpbell. "She can have on

a Mormon. He's a Kentu

he way the ground lies, is it? Poor fellow! Poor unh

hout breaking down the door," went on Billie. "Her father

sobedience, but why doesn't she run away? She might look the wide w

. "His letters have all been returned and he t

ld only get one mo

a li

a wo

d w

the letter. "We are not to deliver it if we feel that it would be dangerous

? It sounds like a very

d the plan. Many a time had they won Miss Campbell

inebleau will explain everything to Evelyn. You see, they met i

while Miss Campbell c

st. "He has been very kind to us, and if we could help

interested faces of the four young gir

will be much danger in it for us. Billie can write a perfectly non-committal note saying that she is in Salt Lake City for a few days,

and they began to count the days and weeks before they could r

hem startled them. A deep, sonorous voice that had an ominous ring l

any shoestrings, jewelry, ha

oked up

long enough to show underneath his slouch hat, they judged he was at least half-Indian, and he stood

y," said Miss C

any of those things. We

ogetic when she couldn't accommodat

continued the man, slipping his pack to the ground and opening

terial on the ground, the halfbreed emptie

drops of milk. "They are very perfect ones. This one would make you a beautiful ring, madam. And th

nobody wanted an unset opal, and at the beginning of t

Campbell, "but we do not wish to buy anything, es

er. Now, I should say that this young lady was b

somewhat startled, "bu

sometimes gifted in that way. Since you wer

child will

o opal on h

otested Billie, "onl

e of these stones!" excla

mly, "we wish nothing whatever. I think we

y while the girls gathered their belonging

lked over to the Comet in which they were alrea

or their meanness. I was poor and they had money, but they refused to buy. And now I curse you. I curse you and your country and your parents and your grandparents. I curse the machine which carries you. May your way

n of hatred, he strode down the road,

ature," exclaimed Miss Campbell,

e had started the car and they were speeding along at a rapid rate.

ons like that. He seems to be just a vessel of

st Elinor and Billie burst out simultaneously, as if they had both been pursuing the

k by lightning

Van Vechten's chauff

ten rushed into the house yester

ave been in the house with us a

nd then wouldn't tell us what was the matter. H

shivering at the thought that there had been death and destruction about

line and slept in comfortable beds

head, so as to shut out the memory of that revengeful ind

ied her fri

er's face remin

nswered, almost slipping of

ho was so fond of d

rself out of the deep pit into which she was fast sinking, and falling bac

could have had India

reply. Billie was