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"Do I understand, Beatrice," began Peabody in a tone that instantly made every one extremely uncomfortable, "that I am to tell my sister you are not coming?" "Ernest!" begged Miss Forbes. Winthrop bent hastily over the oil valves. He read the speedometer, which was, as usual, out of order, with fascinated interest. "Ernest," pleaded Miss Forbes, "Mr.
An extract from Yvette's "Journal" gives her impression of the chase: "Some one pointed out the distant, moving specks on the horizon and in a moment our car had left the road and started over the plains. Nearer and nearer we came, and faster and faster ran the antelope stringing out in a long, yellow line before us. The speedometer was moving up and up, thirty miles, thirty-five miles.
Finally he hitched the stick over to the notch which should have brought the craft into a speed of 150 miles, and watched the speedometer closely. "Humph!" he ejaculated, after fifteen or twenty minutes. "Say, Paul," cried Bob just then, "we're losing on the Clarion. She's clear out of sight now." "Why don't you tell me something I don't know?" growled Paul in a tone very queer for him.
Except for the two carbines strapped to the speedometer, except for the soldier-chauffeur and the orderly who sat together outside, except for the eternal consulting of maps and showing of passes, I might have been making a pleasure tour of the towns of Northern France and Belgium. In fact, I have toured abroad during times of peace and have been less comfortable.
Elizabeth Fox reached the city limits without being molested. She then looked at her watch, and slowed down her car. She kept the speedometer needle wavering within the speed law till she set her brakes before the building where the law firm of Starr and Jordan maintained their offices.
"Every speedometer up to now has depended upon the same principle as a Watt's governor; that is, there are two little balls attached to each by a limb to a central shaft: they rise and fall according to their speed of rotation, and this movement is indicated upon a dial." I nodded. He cleared his throat again. "Of course, that is unsatisfactory."
The speedometer indicated fifty-five when I saw that fellow sprawling up there on the fence. I would not have dared go much faster in any case." "Why, you weren't half trying, Tom!" cried the delighted Ned. "She did slide around easy, didn't she? Fifty-five on an almost circular track is a good showing. I am not so scared as I was, my boy."
On the running board were strapped two big galvanized tanks of water. It was almost distressingly evident that the muffler had either been lost or thrown away. But she was hitting on all four. I glanced at the speedometer dial. It registered the astonishing total of 29,250 miles. We swung out the end of the main street and sailed down a road that vanished in the endless gentle slope of a "sink."
I had neither breath nor leisure for the country or conversation. Thus one half hour. The speedometer dial showed the figures 29,260. I allowed myself to think of a possible late lunch at my friend's ranch. We slowed down. The driver advanced the hand throttle the full sweep of the quadrant, steered with his knees, and produced the "makings."
He increased the acceleration further as the men grew accustomed to the force that weighed them down. Ahead of them the pirate was racing along, but quickly now they were overhauling him, for his machine had wings of a sort! They produced a tremendous amount of head resistance at their present velocity, for already the needle of the radio speedometer had moved over to one mile a second.
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