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Updated: May 18, 2025
"We can't go on like this, Cora. That left tire will have to be pumped up." "And you've got good muscles to do it, too, Walter," urged Diddick, smiling mischievously. "We'll all help," volunteered Parks. "Come on!" Diddick, Walter and Parks alighted. Walter stepped to the tool-box to get out the pump and the lifting-jack. As he was about to take them out he started back excitedly.
The priest's smart companion exclaimed in a tone of comic despair: "It is not the right front tire this time: it is the back tire, the left one, that is punctured!" "Ought I to get out?" "By no means! Do not stir! I am going to put the lifting-jack under the car, and shall replace the damaged tire in no time." Fandor was only a few yards off.
"But when I saw the pocketbook empty it was enough " "I should say so," interrupted Belle. "Who would ever have thought of finding it in your toolbox, Cora?" The words seemed fraught with strange import. "Was it really in the tool-box, Walter?" Cora asked. "On top of the tire pump and the lifting-jack," replied Walter. "And empty that's the queer part of it," commented Belle.
From a box he extracted a lifting-jack which, to Fandor's expert eye, did not seem to function so badly as all that. The chauffeur slipped it under the car. Fandor lent an experienced hand, and lifted the wheel, whose tire had just given up the ghost. "There, Monsieur! These punctures are the cause of endless delays," remarked Fandor, for the sake of saying something.
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