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In the daytime he was superintending putting the track in condition, writing what he called "promotion stuff," securing entries and forming the center of excited groups at the drug store and one or other of the two public garages. In the evenings he was generally to be found at Bettina's feet. Jasper did not come over any more.
There was a little grove of jasmine trees just beneath it, that made the air overpoweringly sweet, but there were no lights on this side, as the garages, stables, vegetable gardens, and servants' quarters would have destroyed the picture. Spaulding glanced about sharply, but there was not even a strolling couple, and even the moon was shining on the other side of the heavy mass of buildings.
These are of various sorts, from the great resorts at Aix les Bains, where our soldiers can spend their furloughs, to the hostess houses at the cantonments on this side. In addition, there are scores of warehouses and garages, and hundreds of "huts" which consist of nothing more than ruined cellars and dugouts in war-demolished towns or old-line trenches.
I ordered two motorcycles built along the lines of the machines used there. They arrived here two days ago and are now in their garages waiting for you. These cars are equipped with all kinds of life-saving and first-aid devices, including a stretcher, a pulmotor, bandages and medicines of all kinds.
The distance between the two stations includes all of the beach reserved for bathers and it will give each machine about a mile to patrol. "The garages have just been completed. Each will contain sleeping accommodations for five boys. You will divide your crew into two patrols, with a leader for each patrol. One patrol will occupy the north station and the other the south.
I could imagine his anxiety, for I knew that he was deep in the big Consolidated-Western deal. "Say, Corf," Atkinson bustled up to me, "is your machine running?" "Yes," I answered, "but what's the matter with your own?" "Broken down, and the garages are all closed. And my wife's somewhere around Truckee, I think, stalled on the overland. Can't get a wire to her for love or money.
"Well, we're order one from one of the garages in Guildford. You really must stay, Charles. There's lots we have to talk over a lot of things that are of vital consequence to us both." At that moment there came a rap at the door and the young manservant entered, saying: "You're wanted on the telephone, ma'am." Mrs.
Inquiries made amongst employees of the cab company, some of whom occupied little rooms above their garages, elicited the important information that the car had been seen in the mews on the night of the murder a fact, it seemed, which had been overlooked in the preliminary police investigations. The car was a two-seater Daimler with a yellow body and a hood.
After reporting the accident at the local police station, Tom and Ned visited all the garages and repair shops in the little town in an attempt to learn if any damaged machine had been brought in. They met with no success, however. "Guess their bus wasn't hurt much," commented Ned as they left the last place. "We might as well give up for the night." "The police will be on the job.
I have acquaintances in every capital; I chatter in half a dozen tongues; I have the reputation of being an authority on hotels and the best routes hither and thither; while I believe I am known in most of the chief garages in the capitals. Yes, mine was a strange life, full of romance, of constant change, of excitement sometimes of peril.
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