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Updated: June 25, 2025
Yet each man in the tonneau and the orderly beside the driver on the front seat saluted the Red Cross girl as she stood by the laneside. In another half-minute the car had turned at the bottom of the hill and was out of sight. She sighed again as she plodded on.
Since her rescue she had neither moved nor spoken had rested motionless in her corner of the tonneau, eyes closed, body relaxed and listless. But now she roused; unveiled the dear wonder of her eyes of brown; even mustered up the ghost of a smile. "Wherever you think best," she told him gently. "The Plaza? You might be bothered there. We may be traced we're sure to. This only saves us for the day.
"I will in my hat!" answered Parks, starting off on a run. "Here's a cup," called Elizabeth, producing a collapsible one from a pocket in the tonneau of the touring car. The lad took it, and came hurrying back with it half full of liquid, having spilled the rest on his hasty trip. Jack managed to get a little between Cora's lips, and it revived her.
In the tonneau was a matronly woman and three girls including "L'Enfant Terrible," all, Louise thought, rather overdressed. "Those folks, so I'm told," said Cap'n Amazon placidly, "come from that big house on the p'int as far as you can see from our windows. More money than good sense, I guess. Though the man, he comes of good old Cape stock.
With one high spring, Lad had cleared the ground and was over the closed tonneau door and amid a ruck of luggage and rugs. The rear seat was filled by a steamer-trunk, strapped tightly in place there. And the bottom of the car was annoyingly crowded by bumpy bags and other gear.
Jimmie fell from the tonneau. In concealing his sense of triumph, he was not entirely successful. "I got him!" he cried. "I didn't make no mistake about this one!" "What one?" demanded Van Vorst. Jimmie pointed dramatically at his prisoner. With an anxious expression the stranger was tenderly fingering the back of his head. He seemed to wish to assure himself that it was still there.
She had been waiting for some minutes in the post-office, and needless to say there were others waiting, too not altogether engrossed in reading the latest mail. Cora stepped out of the Whirlwind and opened the tonneau door for Ray. Hazel and she were to ride within the car, while Gertrude shared the seat with Cora. Cora wore her regular motor togs.
The late comers at restaurants and hotels would wait long and take second best. A big cattleman beckoned to Lane. "Place in my car, son. Run you back to town." One of the judges sat in the tonneau beside the rough rider. "How's the leg? Hurt much?" "Not much. I'm noticin' it some," Kirby answered with a smile. "You'll have to ride to-morrow. It's you and Sanborn for the finals.
Oscar joined in Pen's laugh and started for the door, shaking his head and picking his teeth. Pen looked after him uneasily. That afternoon Pen and Jane went with Bill and Oscar for an automobile ride over the desert. The two women sat in the tonneau, Oscar in front with Bill. The desert road was rough, full of bowlders and ruts. But neither Oscar nor Bill was hampered by roads.
Every tiny twig was thrown out into bold relief, as though a powerful sun had found a way of forcing ingress through the canopy of leafless branches overhead. "Not just at present, perhaps," replied the driver at the wheel; "but they may come in handy yet. We'll wait and see." Owen sat beside Hugh, the other three occupying the tonneau of the car.
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