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He cranked up the piano once more and I sprinted for the open. I strolled out on to the sands and began to think this thing over. There was no doubt that the brain-work had got to be done by me. Dear old Freddie had his strong qualities. He was top-hole at polo, and in happier days I've heard him give an imitation of cats fighting in a backyard that would have surprised you.
There was good compression; everything was lubricating nicely; no heating or sticking anywhere but the engine had lain down on us. The captain was so angry he wouldn't speak a word to me, and mumbled red-hot things to himself under his breath. Guess how I felt. But he was too much of a gentleman not to crank and so he cranked and cranked and still nothing happened.
I cried to the man, my voice quivering with excitement. "Look! you can see the number! There can be no mistake. But don't lose it for your life! It's worth a sovereign to you!" The man, warming to my mood, cranked his engine rapidly and sprang to the wheel.
"I do believe that motor-cars can almost be made to think under the guidance of very gentle but sure hands." Paul looked very handsome, Cora thought. He was the type she always admired a youth with a bronze complexion a straight, athletic figure, almost classic, Cora decided. He cranked up for her, re-entered the car, and they rolled from the garage.
The young man came out, sliding silver coins into his trousers pocket. He glanced up and down the narrow, little street already deserted, cranked the Ford and climbed in. "All set," he observed cheerfully, "Let's go!"
"I'm strictly business I'll sign up anybody. You can just keep that paper," he nodded to the Widow, "and send it to me by mail." He winked at Virginia and slipped swiftly out the door as the Widow made a rush for her gun. She came out after him, brandishing a double-barreled shotgun, just as he cranked up his machine to start. "I'll show you!" she yelled, jerking her gun to her shoulder.
"Everybody ran for their horses, and Uncle Dick for his car. He cranked it and then saw me getting in with him. "'You go back and stay with Betty, he cried to me. 'Stay with her every minute till I come back. If I'm gone three hours or three days or three years, don't leave her. And keep her away from the oil fields.
"I do mind very much," he said, abruptly. "I think you are committing a breach of taste to stay here, and I would be greatly obliged if you would leave." And without really waiting for Sylvia's reply, he directed, "Back out of here, Ferris." The chauffeur cranked up, and sounded his horn which naturally had the effect of disturbing the meeting.
Savagely he cranked up his engine and jumped into the driving-seat. The car rushed forward. When St. Albans was behind him the confusion of excitement began to settle, and his thoughts presented themselves clear as those of a dispassionate spectator. For him, in all this tangle, there was one thing, and one thing only, that mattered; to be in time.
One noticeable change in the front-steering tricycle, which has been largely made, lately, is the substitution of central for side gearing, in consequence of which bicycle cranks can be employed, instead of the cranked axle, with its fixed throw. This gives an appearance of lightness which the older types of machine do not possess.
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