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Updated: June 25, 2025
"Not always, I hope!" Of what Carl was thinking is not recorded. "Well, as a matter of fact, I've been a fairly industrious young man of granite the last few months, getting out the Touricar." "What is a Touricar? It sounds like an island inhabited by cannibals, exports hemp and cocoanut, see pink dot on the map, nor' by nor'east of Mogador." Carl explained. "I'm terribly interested," said Ruth.
In his large, shabby, fairly expensive furnished room on Seventy-fifth Street he spent unwilling evenings, working on Touricar plans, or reading French French technical motor literature, light novels, Balzac, anything. He tried to keep in physical form, and, much though the routine and silly gestures of gymnasium exercises bored him, he took them three times a week.
For no particular reason, apparently, Milwaukee had taken them up first; three Milwaukee people had ordered cars.... An artist was making posters with beautiful gipsies and a Touricar and tourists whose countenances showed lively appreciation of the efforts of the kind Touricar manufacturers to please and benefit them.
At ten-thirty, the hour at which he had vehemently resolved to go, they were curled in two big chairs eating chocolate peppermints and talking of themselves apropos of astronomy and the Touricar and Lincoln Beachey's daring and Mason Winslow and patriotism and Joralemon. Ruth's father drifted in from his club at a quarter to eleven. Carl now met him for the first time.
And we'll put the money for a diamond ring into a big davenport.... Are we going to be dreadfully poor?" "Oh, not pawn-shop poor. I made VanZile boost my salary, last week, and with my Touricar stock I'm getting a little over four thousand dollars a year." "Is that lots or little?" "Well, it 'll give us a decent apartment and a nearly decent maid, I guess.
With blankets spread on the level space thus provided, with the extra-heavy top and side curtains in place, and the electric light switched on, tourists had a refuge cleaner than a country hotel and safer than a tent.... The first Touricar was being built. Carl was circularizing a list of possible purchasers, and corresponding with makers of camping goods.
But the head salesman of the company laughed at Carl when he suggested that the Touricar might not only bring them money, but really take people off to a larger freedom: "I don't care a hang where they go with the thing as long as they pay for it. You can't be an idealist and make money.
Carl was now, between his salary and his investment in the Touricar Company, making about four thousand dollars a year, and saving nearly half of it, against the inevitable next change in his life, whatever that should be. He would probably climb to ten thousand dollars in five years. The Touricar was promising success.
But, once VanZile had considered the possibility of letting go his Touricar interest in order to be safe, he seemed always to be considering it. Carl read fate in VanZile's abstracted manner. And if VanZile withdrew, Carl's own stock would be worthless. But he stuck at his work, with something of a boy's frightened stubbornness and something of a man's quiet sternness. Fear was never far from him.
He was immediately set to work at a tentative salary of $2,500 a year, to develop the plans of what he called the "Touricar" an automobile with all camping accessories, which should enable motorists to travel independent of inns, add the joy of camping to the joy of touring, and a feature of nearly all inventions add money to the purse of the inventor. The young man was Carl Ericson, whom Mr.
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