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Updated: May 23, 2025
The town's ahead in money and business, for an automobile race always brings a big crowd; the track owners make the gate money and the racing-cars get the prizes. Everybody's ahead. It's a clean sport too." "I don't approve of racing for money," Tish said decidedly. But Mr. Ellis shrugged his shoulders. "It's really hardly racing for money," he explained.
"Hm!" murmured Rachel. "That may be all very well for Mrs. Tams...." A moment later she said "It's always like that with Wason's shops for the first week or two!" And her faintly sarcastic tone of a shrewd housewife immediately set Wason in his place Wason with his two hundred and sixty-five shops, and his racing-cars, and his visits to kings and princes.
"The prizes cover the expenses of the racing-cars, which are heavy naturally. The cars alone cost a young fortune." "I see," said Tish. "I hadn't thought of it in that light. Well, why didn't Morris Valley jump at the chance?" He hesitated a moment before he answered. "It was my fault really," he said. "They were willing enough to have the races, but it was a matter of money.
In the construction of racing-cars and high-speed machines for such roads as they have on the other side, we have much to learn from the French, and we have been slow in learning it.
Charlie Sands put a hand on the detective's arm. "It's like this, Aunt Tish," he said; "you are accused of practicing a short-change game, that's all. This race is sewed up. You employ those racing-cars with drivers at an average of fifty dollars a week. They are hardly worth it, Aunt Tish. I could have got you a better string for twenty-five."
"You've still got the note," persisted Hewitt. "It proves why you went there. And the senator, too. He can testify. And we won't be hundred yards away. And," he added grudgingly, "you have Nolan." Nolan was the spoiled child of 'the office. He was the district attorney's pet. Although still young, he had scored as a detective and as a driver of racing-cars.
Above it all rose the breathless scream of the racing-cars, as they rocked and skidded, with brakes grinding and mufflers open; with their own terror creating and spreading terror. Though eager in sympathy, the people of Brussels themselves were undisturbed. Many still sat at the little iron tables and smiled pityingly upon the strange figures of the peasants.
In the hands of experts, the foreign racing-cars are the most perfect road locomotives yet devised; for touring over American roads in the hands of the amateur they are worse than useless; and even experts have great difficulty in running week in and week out without serious breaks and delays. To use a slang phrase, "They will not stand the racket."
"You've still got the note," persisted Hewitt. "It proves why you went there. And the senator, too. He can testify. And we won't be a hundred yards away. And," he added grudgingly, "you have Nolan." Nolan was the spoiled child of "the office." He was the district attorney's pet. Although still young, he had scored as a detective and as a driver of racing-cars.
No doubt he owned one of my racing-cars, and was clear of the delinquent lists at his clubs. I dismissed all thought of him, threw aside the paper, and mentally figured out my commissions on sales during the past month. It was a handsome figure, large enough for two. This pastime, too, soon failed to interest me. I gazed out of the window and watched the dark shapes as they sped past.
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