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The road surface was good, the car running like a clock, and on the level, open highway out of Biggleswade through Tempsford and Eaton Socon along to Buckden the speed-indicator was registering thirty-five and even forty miles an hour. I was anxious to get to Barnack before dark; therefore, regardless of any police-traps that might be set, I "let her rip."
The forward speed of the Sandra decreased to four hundred miles an hour, and still the Hawk studied the massive body behind.... A sputter sounded in the radio receiver. Carse turned away from the electelscope and listened to the heavy Venusian voice that was suddenly speaking to him from it. "Carse, I've got you! You've seen our ray, of course, but have you looked at your speed-indicator?
The car cracked in the utter drouth and glare, and they put crushed ice to Mrs. Cheyne's neck, and toiled up the long, long grades, past Ash Fork, towards Flagstaff, where the forests and quarries are, under the dry, remote skies. The needle of the speed-indicator flicked and wagged to and fro; the cinders rattled on the roof, and a whirl of dust sucked after the whirling wheels.
He fixes up the speed-indicator puts a new face on it, so that when the car is doing thirty, the indicator only shows fifteen, and twenty for forty, and so on.
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