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At the same time he tucked the wriggling dog under his right arm, holding him thus momentarily safe, and pressed the self-starter button. There was a subdued whir. A move of Halding's foot and a release of the brake, and the car started forward. "Stand clear!" he ordered. "I'm going." The jolt of the sudden start was too much for the Mistress's balance on the running-board. Back she toppled.
Instead of keeping on, however, they turned into the grove, Kennedy leaning far over the running-board as MacLeod drove slowly, following his directions, as though Craig were tracing something. With a hurried exclamation of surprise, Snedden gave our car the gas and shot ahead, swinging around after them.
We were beyond the town now, bowling rapidly out into the flat Belgian country, and, clinging there to the running-board with the October wind blowing quite through a thin flannel suit, it suddenly came over me that things had moved very fast in the last five minutes, and that all at once, in some unexpected fashion, all that elaborate barrier of laissez-passers, sauf-conduits, and so on, had been swept aside, and, quite as if it were the most ordinary thing in the world, I was spinning out to that almost mythical "front."
Peter could vision the formidable ex-soldier lying dead in Jonesboro jail, with his little congressional medal on his breast. Some lighter portion of his mind nickered about here and there on trivial things. He observed a little hole rusted in the running-board of the motor. He noticed that the officer's eyes were just the same chill, washed blue as the winter sky above his head.
Captain Renfrew got out of his gown and into his coat and turned off his gasolene light. They walked around the piazza to the front of the house. In the street the head-lights of the roadster shot divergent rays through the darkness. They went out. The old Captain took a seat in the car beside the physician, while Peter stood on the running-board.
"It's a gentleman who was in the train and who kindly drove me over. Where is my brother?" "Your letter only came to-night," stammered Scott, "and in the same mail we had one from your brother in Douglas, saying he had been called East " "East!" The blow was too sudden; Polly's legs collapsed. She sat down on the running-board of the machine and gasped.
On sped the car, swaying crazily back and forth, Del Mar crouched on the running-board and working his way slowly and perilously to the front seat. The chauffeur felt the weight of some one on that side. Just as he turned to see what it was, Del Mar leaped at him. Still holding the wheel, the chauffeur fought him off with his free hand, Del Mar holding on to some spare tires with one hand, also.
Spike gasped and sat down weakly upon the running-board of a car, and the Old Un stole a furtive peep at him. "So you know ?" "Sure I know more 'n I want t' know about you, so chase yourself out o' here beat it!" Spike stared in mute amazement, then flushed painfully. "You mean you an' me ain't goin' t' be pals no longer?" he asked wistfully.
When they at last got back to the car, Eleanor, disheveled and limp, sank on the running-board and laughingly made room for Quin beside her. She had quite forgotten to be grown up and temperamental, a fact that Quin was prompt to take advantage of. "See here!" he said. "Am I going to get a commission for all this?" "How much do you want?" "I want a lot!" he threatened.
"Your hair will be the only blaze we have to-night." Chapa and Medmangi stood up together on the running-board and began to sing dolefully, "Forsaken, forsaken, forsaken, am I, Like the bones at a banquet, all men pass me by." "I wish a few would pass by," said Gladys, "By the way, have you noticed that not a single car or wagon has passed through here since we've been stranded?
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