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He borrowed money in stupendous amounts $150,000,000 at one time and flung it into a campaign of red-hot development. More business he demanded, and more, and more, until his captains, like a thirty-horse team of galloping horses, became very nearly uncontrollable. It was a fast and furious period. The whole country was ablaze with a passion of prosperity.

I've got more money than I know what to do with right now. Roper has a thirty-horse outfit for sale. Buy it to-morrow. I'll pay for it, and you needn't consider yourself a dollar in debt. Some day I'll have you take me on a long trip, and that will make up for it. As for the girl and myself we're going on to Tête Jaune to-morrow." Aldous could see the amazed packer staring at him in the gloom.

I drove a thirty-horse White three months last year." "Ah, the same car that we drive. Unfortunately, I cannot help my father just now, for I have met with an accident in the hunting field." I jibbed at this. Motor-men don't know much about the hunting field, as a rule, but I wasn't such a ninny that I supposed men hunted in July. "Hunting, did you say, sir?"

Then I remember the big motor, with its glaring head-lights and glitter of polished brass, waiting for me outside. It was my new thirty-horse- power Robur, which had only been delivered that day. I remember also asking Perkins, my chauffeur, how she had gone, and his saying that he thought she was excellent. "I'll try her myself," said I, and I climbed into the driver's seat.

I'm twenty-two to-morrow, Niti, and my grandfather, who is just about the best grandfather a girl ever had, cabled across to the Napier people, and they've sent round the dandiest six-cylinder, thirty-horse landaulette that you ever saw, even in Central Park, and a driver to match only I shan't have much use for him, except to look after the automobile.