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Updated: June 22, 2025
At, say, nine o'clock, he settles back behind the steering-wheel of his motor-car. Crossing the Hudson by the Forty-second Street Ferry, he climbs the Weehawken slope, and swings westward over one of the uninviting turnpikes that disfigure the marshy land between the Passaic and the Hackensack.
His hand left the steering-wheel and gave hers a swift pat. "Well, it's over," she said, "and I wanted you to know. I'm going to pull back in my shell and be very dignified and honorable. If anybody wants to get hurt through me, they've got to hurt themselves." "You'll not try to see West any more?" "No," she said rather wearily, "that's over. And it's for the best. I've had a good lesson.
The helmsman of the Ludwig Gadd, therefore, had scarcely begun to revolve his steering-wheel ere the Flying Fish, with her speed accurately reduced to that of the other vessel, had sheered still closer, while von Schalckenberg, prompted by his companion, hailed in Russian, through one of the pilot-house ports "Ludwig Gadd, ahoy! Is your captain on deck?"
Again his thumb, hardened with file and wrench and steering-wheel, touched hers. It was startlingly like a kiss of real lips. Lightly she returned the finger-kiss, answering diffidently, "Our hands are mad silly hands to think that Long Beach is a tropical jungle." "You aren't angry at them?" "N-no." He cradled her head on his shoulder, his hand gripping her arm till she cried, "You hurt me."
With quick decision, he sprang from the car and ran forward, believing that, if he could return with his cap filled with water, he might restore his companion to consciousness. Then, strange to relate, no sooner had he left the car than Patricia opened her eyes, straightened her figure, and with a quick leap changed her seat to the one beneath the steering-wheel.
Down went the nose of the car before him, the steering-wheel hitting him in the chest. Down came Fanny and all her black thoughts against the glass at his back. The car had not fallen very far; it had slid forward into a snow-lined dyke, and remained, resting on its radiator, its front wheels thrust into the steep walls of the bank, its back wheels in the air.
I'm going home if I have to walk!" she said wildly. She started to spring up in the car, with some half-formed intention of forcing him to stop by jumping out. "Now, Marjorie, don't act like a movie-heroine," he said commonplacely and infuriatingly. He also took one hand off the steering-wheel and put it around her wrist. "You can't go back to New York unless I take you.
She watched his deft manipulation of levers and brakes, and fancied that his hands dwelt on the steering-wheel with a caress. "You have a real lovely automobile, Fitzroy," she said, "and I have a sort of notion that you are devoted to it. May I ask is it your own car?" "Yes. I bought it six months ago.
In front of Hingeston as he sat at the steering-wheel were two dials. One was that of an aneroid which indicated the height. This now registered four thousand feet. The other was a manometer connected with the speed-gauge above the conning-tower, and the indicator on this was hovering between one hundred and fifty and a hundred and sixty.
But she surmised that something unusual was in the air, and was watching for me from behind lace curtains in the living-room when I returned two hours later. She saw a foreign-made car whirl into the drive and stop at the door. She saw me get out of it and run up the front steps. The features of the man behind the big mahogany steering-wheel could be discerned easily.
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