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"It won't go," she said, a trifle despondently and shaking her charming head. "I've been here nearly half an hour waiting for it to do something; but it won't." Mr. Carr peered wisely into the acetylenes, looked carefully under the hood, examined the upholstery. He didn't know anything about motors. "I'm afraid," he said sadly, "that there's something wrong with the magne-e-to!"
"You are much too amusing," he said as, side by side, they moved silently on through the pale starlight, like errant phantoms of a vanished age, and no further word was said between them, nor did they look at each other again until, ahead, the road turned silvery under the rays of the Lodge acetylenes, and beyond, the first cluster of brilliant lanterns gleamed among the trees.
On his way to camp he turned the problem over and over in his mind, but could make nothing of it, unless the words foreshadowed an attempt on the temporary dam. But there seemed to be little chance for the success of such an undertaking. Big acetylenes flared all night by the makeshift structure, and two men with shotguns watched by it. The whole camp was under almost martial law.
What was she doing in there? What ..." He stopped me with a hand upon my arm. "I don't know. But she'll tell us when she comes around. I only hope they'll get Silva. That would make the victory complete." He paused, for the hum of a motor-car came up the drive, and an instant later we caught the glare of the acetylenes. Then a voice hailed us. "Hello, there," it called. "Shall I come up?"
"I'm a little more selfish, this time because, if I had a decent opportunity I think I'd try to fall in love with somebody or other " She flushed painfully, looking straight ahead over the steering-wheel along the blinding path of the acetylenes. "I am very sorry," she said, "because I had had almost concluded to tell them everything." "What!" he asked, aghast.
Winnie had kindly sent her limousine car for them, and it stood throbbing in front of the hotel-entrance, its acetylenes streaming far up the street. Mrs. Winnie's home was on Fifth Avenue, fronting the park. It occupied half a block, and had cost two millions to build and furnish. It was known as the "Snow Palace," being all of white marble.
Hamil, who's doing the new park, you know. All kinds of genius buzzes in his head roulette wheels buzz in mine. Hamil, you remember Miss Wilming in the 'Motor Girl. She was one of the acetylenes. Come on; we'll all light up later. Make him come, Dolly." Hamil turned to speak to her. She seemed to be, at a casual glance, the sort of young girl who usually has a mother somewhere within ear-shot.
But the primeval flavor of the night presently dissolved in the glare of acetylenes from a long gray car standing motionless by the roadside ahead. The climbing moon shone full upon the face of a bareheaded motorist idly smoking a cigarette and waiting. Diane reined in her horse with a jerk and a clank of relics. "Philip Poynter!" she exclaimed. The driver laughed.
He turned and looked at Leila; all the wickedness of his anger was concentrated in his gaze. Then he took his leave of them as formally, as precisely as though he had forgotten the whole scene; and a minute later the big Mercedes ran out into a half-circle, backed, wheeled, and rolled away through the thickening dusk, the glare of the acetylenes sweeping the deserted street.
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