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Updated: May 9, 2025
On the day preceding the start Heideck was at tiffin with the Colonel, and coming events were being discussed in a serious manner, when from outside the dull screech of an automobile's horn caught their ears. Two minutes later, covered with dust and with his face a dark red from the heat, an officer appeared on the verandah who introduced himself as Captain Elliot, General Blood's adjutant.
It must be kept in mind, too, in analyzing the causes of the automobile's amazing expansion, that it is the first real improvement in individual transportation since the chariot rattled around the Roman arena. The horse had his century-old day, but when the motor came man traded him for a gas-engine.
"I'm afraid you'll breathe maledictions when you hear what is the matter," said our Chauffeulier. "Good gracious! what's happened?" exclaimed Mamma. "If the thing's going to explode, do let us get out and run." "So far from exploding, she's likely to be silent for some time," Mr. Barrymore went on, jumping down and going to the automobile's head. "I'm awfully sorry.
The air was stifling. "I'm afraid we are in for a bad thunderstorm, girls," Quest remarked. Laura laughed. "Who cares? The automobile's there, Mr. Quest." "Let's go, then," he replied. They descended into the street and drove to the Professor's house in silence. Even Laura was feeling the strain of these last hours of anxiety.
In this instance it would be a hard matter to become lost, for the ridges rose steadily upward toward the summits of the high mountains, the town was in the narrow valley below, and the foothills ranged down to the desert in the east. He was halfway to the mine when he saw the gleam of an automobile's lights in the road far below. "Sautee got busy right quick," he said aloud.
The story told by Polly Barnard, and supplemented by Petch, revealed very clearly the dastardly trick practised by Voles the previous evening, while the dodge of smearing out two of the figures on the automobile's license plate explained the success attained in traversing the streets unnoticed by the police. Steingall was inclined to theorize.
I blundered against the corner of the motor-car, and came round it face to face with young Verrall, who was descending from the back compartment. His face was touched with orange from the automobile's big lamps, which conflicted with the shadows of the comet light, and distorted him oddly. That effect lasted but an instant, but it put me out.
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