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Updated: June 4, 2025
Behind her the traffic was piling up, each machine stealing every inch of vantage for the go-ahead signal, crowding up wheel to wheel, the nose of one thrusting at the rear fender of the other. On one side of Sophie rose the base of a safety station for street-car boarders. Between her car and the curb a long-snouted gray touring-car was edging in.
Winnie, when she came to meet him; clad in her best automobile coat, a thing of purest snowy ermine, so truly gorgeous that wherever she went, people turned and stared and caught their breath. Mrs. Winnie was a picture of joyful health, with a glow in her rich complexion, and a sparkle in her black eyes. She sat in her big touring-car in which one could afford to wear ermine.
And, then," he continued eagerly, "we'll take their yacht and escape to Newport, and you'll lend me five thousand dollars, and pay my debts, and give me back the ten you borrowed. And you might buy me a touring-car and some polo ponies and and oh, lots of things. I'll think of them as we go along.
"I suppose he is trying to figure out what to do next," was Phil's comment. "Wants to locate another sucker if he can." "Such a man ought to be in jail," said Bert "He may rob some poor fellow and do it in a legal way, too, so that the man won't be able to get back at him." Roger had slowed down, so that the touring-car kept well behind the former teacher.
That's what it looks like to me. How can we tell what confronted him the day he went down to the hotel desk to change his rooms and, instead, got into his touring-car and beat the speed limit to Canada. Whom did he meet in the hotel corridor? A woman with a perfectly good marriage certificate, or a detective with a perfectly good warrant?
When Captain McCoy had driven away, and his own car and the golf clubs had again been brought to the steps, Judge Van Vorst once more attempted to depart; but he was again delayed. Other visitors were arriving. Up the driveway a touring-car approached, and though it limped on a flat tire, it approached at reckless speed.
He was interrupted by an outrageous uproar, the grisly scream of a siren and the cannonade of a powerful exhaust, as a great white touring-car swung round us from behind at a speed that sickened me to see, and, snorting thunder, passed us "as if we had been standing still." It hurtled like a comet down the curve and we were instantly choking in its swirling tail of dust.
"Then we can pretend to be calling on them," put in Roger. Leaving the touring-car standing in the road, the four youths entered the hotel. They glanced into the reading-room, and noted that over a dozen persons were present. Then Dave gave a low cry. "Look, boys! What do you think of that?"
The old man had only recently bought his first touring-car; in haste to be gone somewhere his motor failed to respond to his first coaxing and subsequent bursts of violent rage.
He cut an arc round the sexpartite circle of the Rond Point that lost no inch of advantage, and straightened out, ventre-a-terre, up the avenue for the place de l'Etoile, shooting madly in and out of the tide of more leisurely traffic and ever the motor of the touring-car purred contentedly just at his elbow.
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