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Updated: June 13, 2025
"Is that a car coming?" she said suddenly, her dark eyes on the floor. I listened. "I don't think so," I said, and stepped out on to the balcony. There was no sound at all. It was the dead of night indeed. I glanced over the balustrade at the car. Her headlights burned steadily, making the moonlit road ahead more bright. "I can hear nothing," I said, coming back into the boudoir.
These gasoline torches can't be lowered down there. The elephant would go wild and probably drowned hisself, an' if " They are powerful enough and can be turned anywhere we need 'em. There, you can get a look at them now. That's Old Nanc on her way here." Up the road sounded a siren, and the little manager turned to see two headlights bowling toward him.
He wished to heaven he hadn't let the Little Woman talk him out of packing a gun, and waited for his chance. Young Kenner was thoughtful, brooding through the hours of darkness with his head slightly bent and his eyes, so far as Casey could determine, fixed steadily on the uneven trail where the headlights revealed every rut, every stone, every chuck-hole.
There was an ambulance column in difficulties in the village, and while some cars were being extricated a camel supply column came up in the opposite direction. The camels liked neither the headlights nor the running engines, and these had to be made dark and silent before they would pass.
He remembered that on the side next him the arroyo had deep-cut banks that might get him a nasty fall if he attempted them in the dark, so he took a little more time for the trip and kept to the rougher, yet safer, granite-covered ridge. Once, just once, he caught the glow of dimmed headlights falling on the slope farthest from him.
Yet I also felt cleansed and refreshed, like the air of a city after heavy rain. I stood up and began gathering the fallen gear in a pile by the trailer. Suddenly, I was staring into headlights which did not disappear. A man got out of the pickup. "What happened, son?" As I recounted the bicycle incident, I tried to control the quiver in my voice. "Officer Brown," he said, showing me a badge.
The first of these had arrived and the rest were tailing behind for half a mile when Weir and his companions set out for town, the blinding headlights of the machines scattering on either side of the road the approaching workmen.
The Polaris was easily recognized, and fortunately, was on the nearer side of the giant landing area. "There's home," said Roger. "Yes," agreed Tom. "And she sure looks good to me " The curly-haired cadet suddenly stopped as powerful headlights loomed on the highway ahead. "That's Vidac's jet car," said Roger. "I recognize the lights. We've got to get out of here!"
His eyes, like the girl's, were watchfully bent upon the gloom-filled angle which Terry must negotiate before the way straightened out again before her. Her headlights cut through the shadows; Terry's little body stiffened a bit and her hands tensed on her wheel; her flying speed was lessened an almost negligible trifle; she made the turn and opened the throttle. Steve nodded approvingly.
The big shadowy barn that was the garage was full of dancing shapes in the lantern-light. The rain splashed and spattered incessantly outside; a black sky seemed to have closed down just over their heads. She was in a fever to get away. Slowly the dazzling headlights moved in the pitchy blackness, the wheels grated but held their own.
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