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Updated: May 19, 2025
He climbed aboard the run-about, drove out of the yard, and rattled off down the road. He executed his commissions, and was sailing happily back to the village, when about a mile short of it a sitting figure rose from the roadside, stepped forward, and waved an arresting hand. To his surprise, Mary saw that it was one of the Blue Marines.
At such times his face wore the expression she had seen on it when she had looked in at him from the darkness and again there came over her a sense of the mysterious distance between them; but usually his fits of abstraction were followed by bursts of gaiety that chased away the shadow before it chilled her. She was still thinking of the ten dollars he had handed to the driver of the run-about.
Some people most people in these run-about railway days, would complain of such a life, in such a 'narrow sphere, so they call it, as monotonous. Very likely it is so. But is it to be complained of on that account? Is monotony in itself an evil? Which is better, to know many places ill, or to know one place well?
"Phew!" he started to mutter a thought aloud, then suspended utterance and thought as he jumped the racer from forty-five to seventy miles an hour, swept past to the left of a horse and buggy going in the same direction, and slanted back to the right side of the road with margin to spare but seemingly under the nose of a run-about coming from the opposite direction.
"I didn't have a chance," retorted Freddy. "I was in a little run-about with a pal when he came scooting by hell-for-leather. We only got a glimpse of him, and if he noticed us he made no sign. I thought you'd like to know, that's all. It was an open car, brown colour. I couldn't see the number for dust; it was A something." "Well, we know all that," said Foyle.
A few more sweeps and the remains of the camp they had that morning left were before them, and Pierre could no longer repress his glee. "Good guide, you! Trust a know-it-all for making mistakes." "What does it mean?" demanded Adrian, angrily. "Nothing. Only you picked out a run-about, a little branch of river, that wanders out of course and then comes home again. Begins and ends the same.
They had explored much of it together in the little 'run-about, nearly every day a short spin somewhere; to-day a little more ambitious run the whole afternoon, and tea, a picnic tea, an hour or more back, in a charming glade beside a little brook. "Oh, this is perfectly lovely!" she exclaimed; and then, with a breathless laugh, as a bump lifted her out of her seat: "It is rough isn't it?"
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