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Updated: May 24, 2025
They went on, and as it was that other night, some withdrew to leave a pathway and others stared, but, finding no specific reason, did not hinder them. Madame Beattie spoke once or twice, a brief mandate in a foreign tongue, and that, Jeff noted, was effective. She stepped up on the running-board of the car and laid her hand on the interpreter's arm.
The slowing car hugged the inside of the sharp turn, Larry holding the door open and waiting his moment. The instant the taxi made the curve Lefty's car was cut from view; and that instant Larry sprang from the running-board, slamming the door behind him, landed on soft earth and scuttled in among the trees.
He leaned over to lift the boy to the running-board, but Steve, with one foot upraised, hung back. He faced toward Caleb and, without a glance in the girl's direction, said: "Mebby she mebby she'd like to go, too?" Barbara Allison, chin lifted a little higher, half wheeled and slipped her hand within that of her father. "Thank you, but I don't care to," she refused.
"Telephone the Pullman ticket office and change my berth reservation from the ten-thirty to the one o'clock train." He went out with the man, and Miss Mathewson heard him say: "You walked in, Joe? You can ride back with us on the running-board." Ten minutes after he had gone Chester came again. He found Miss Mathewson reading by the office droplight.
A minute later he had all the unoccupied guests around him on the lawn, and one of the Green Imp's lamps was turned upon its crippled shape. "By George, he's had a bad accident," one and another of them said as they examined the car's injuries. The hood was jammed until they wondered why the engine was not disabled; the left running-board was nearly torn off and the fender a shapeless wreck.
I could see my lord walk right up to the running-board, with curt little nods to his visitors, and I knew by the trim of his shoulders that there was trouble ahead. Yet they started talking quietly enough.
Dubroca a very small, trim, well-coiffed woman with a dainty lorgnette in the first seat behind him. Castanado waited in the street door at the foot of his stair, down which Mme. Castanado was coming the only way she could come. Her crossing of the sidewalk and her elevation first to the running-board and then to a seat beside Mme.
Claire had often given lifts to tramping harvesters and even hoboes along the road; had enjoyed the sight of their duffle-bags stuck up between the sleek fenders and the hood, and their talk about people and crops along the road, as they hung on the running-board.
We were coasting when I saw a rope stretched across the road. I didn't know what to do. I tried to stop. We slid off the edge." "Uh-uh. He had it all ribbed up to stop you. Now if you had kept on goin' " "But I didn't know what the rope meant. I was frightened. And before I knew what had happened he stepped right on the running-board and told us to give him our money." "Yes, ma'am.
This lad looked no more fitted than Miss Falconer for a treacherous role. How theatrical it all was! And yet it had its zest. I confess I experienced a certain thrill, entirely new to me, as I bent forward with my arms on my knees and my head lowered to hide my face. "Attention, Georges!" I muttered beneath my breath. The chauffeur started, knocking a tool from the running-board beside him.
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