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"Oh, that's all right," laughed Jack, much relieved to hear that the man wasn't going to die. "It was all we could do." They drove back through the village. Outside the court-house was quite a crowd. Events were few and far between in sleepy Nestorville, and the arrest of the autoists had caused quite a sensation.
After leaving Temecula, another road much frequented by the autoists is the right hand road by the Red Mountain grade to Fallbrook, either to Del Mar, by way of Oceanside, or into the Escondido Valley by way of Bonsal, Vista and San Marcos. The third route, the center one between those I have described, leads to Pala.
No father, of any type whatever, came forward to claim her. In spite of her "Western" experience she looked about her for a taxi, or at least a street car. Even in the wilds of Western melodrama one could hear the clang of street-car gongs warning careless autoists off the track.
Again and again, in the course of their drives, he and the Mistress had sickened at sight of mutely eloquent little bodies left in mid-road or tossed in some ditch, testimony to the carelessness and callous hoggishness of autoists. Some few of these run-over dogs, like poor Lady, had of course tempted fate; spurred on by that strange craving which goaded them to fly at cars.
Jack gave him a rapid account of the accident, not stopping just then to say anything about the incident of the farmer and his barn. "What are you going to do about it?" asked his father. "He appears to be seriously hurt," said Jack. "I was thinking of rushing him to the hospital at Nestorville." "That seems to be the best plan," said his father. "By the way, did those autoists get clear away?"
At top speed the auto struck the wayfarer, and before the boys' horrified eyes he was thrown high in the air, to fall, a confused sprawl of legs and arms, at the wayside. The boys ran forward across the few yards of meadow that intervened between the Wondership and the roadway. The autoists did not, apparently, notice them. They had stopped the car and were looking back.
The trio of whom the autoists were in pursuit had by this time realized that they were the objects of the chase and were nervously staring up the track down which was fast approaching the train by which they hoped to escape. The auto was still a good two hundred yards from the station when the train rolled in and, hardly stopping, started to move out again.
Nearing the scattered outposts, whose frightened horses flattened themselves against adjacent fences, the occupants of the touring car were greeted by a shower of bullets, all of which went wide owing to the disconcerted aim of the sentries, who seemed to fly by the autoists in phantom shapes as the wood was safely gained.
The autoists took him away." "Where?" "I should say to some hospital. Perhaps a private one of which we know nothing, and which may be near here. I'll get a full list from the Board of Health to-morrow. Or it may be that the autoists, seeing the damage they had done, took your father to the home of one of themselves, and summoned a doctor there." "Why would they do that?"
"He may have fallen from his wheel and been hurt," said Tom, as he turned the electric runabout into the highway that Mr. Nestor would, most likely, have taken on his way from Shopton. "Then he may have called for help, and some autoists, passing, may have heard and taken him away." "Yes, but where, Tom? Whoever called for help was taken away, that's sure. But where?"
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