been threatening to bring suit for physical as well as material injury it was this threat to sue for physical injuries which brought about a compromise in s favor for it is against the law to threaten anyone particularly by mail as in this instance and so by threatening in return was able to escape be that as it may these three maids or their when we first came up refused to give the road although they did increase their speed in an effort to keep it one of them a gay creature in a pink hat looked back and half smiled at our discomfiture i took no more interest in her than did any of the others apparently at the time for in a situation of this kind how is one to tell which is the favored one as an able the master of a good machine and the ex leader of the highway procession for a certain distance how was a man like speed to take a like this why as all good and true should by increasing his own speed and trailing them so close and making such a row that they would have to give way this he did and so for a distance of three or four miles we were in a cloud of dirt and a perfect uproar of in consequence we finally were permitted to pass not without certain unkind and even contemptuous looks flung in our direction as who should say u you think yourselves very smart don t you � although in the case of the maiden in the pink hat it did not seem to me that her rage was very great she was too amused and cheerful i sat serene and calm the surrounding landscape only i could not help noting that the young ladies were quite attractive and that the one in the pink hat was interested a holiday in in our car � speed or i decided � since he looked so very smart in his carefully cut clothes i did not think it could be myself as for speed up and a between his teeth he looked far too handsome to condescend to with a mere country � say these � you know i but a little later as we were along having attained a good lead as we thought and taking our ease what should come trailing up behind us but this same car making a great clatter and because of a peculiar wide width of road and our mood passing us before we could say jack robinson again the maid in the pink hat smiled � it seemed to me � but at whom and again speed to the task of them i began to sit up and take notice what a chase i there was a big frail iron bridge over a rocky shallow stream somewhere which carried a sign reading bridge weak walk your horses speed limit four miles an hour i think we crossed it in one bound there was a hollow where the road turned sharply under a picturesque cliff and a house in a green field seemed to possess especial beauty because of a grove of pines at another time i would have liked to linger here a sign read danger ahead sharp curve go slow we went about it as if we were being pursued by the devil himself then came a rough place of stone somewhere where ordinarily speed would have down and announced that he would u like to have a picture of this road do you think we down this time not much we went over it as if it were as smooth as glass i was nearly out of the car still we did not catch up quite the ladies or the or all were agreed apparently to best us but we them close and they kept looking back and laughing at us the pink one was all there you are mr called speed she s decided which one she wants she doesn t seem to see any of the rest of us an speed could be horribly flattering at times no i said without a or a or a long lock over my brow never it s here smiled � as caesar might have smiled which one is it you re talking about he inquired innocently which one � you sharp i i don t come the innocent soul on me you know whom she s looking at the rest of us haven t a chance inwardly i was wondering whether by any chance of fancy she could have taken a interest in me while there is life � you know i alas they beat us and for awhile actually disappeared because of a too rough stretch at one point and then as i had given up all hope of seeing them any more there they were just a little ahead of us in the midst of a most landscape and they were � yes they were � people can even in my mind was full of all the possibilities of a gay cheerful whose wouldn t be on a evening like this with a car full of girls and one bolder and prettier than the others smiling back at you the whole atmosphere was one of romance it was after four now with that rather holiday feeling that comes into the air of a saturday afternoon when every and rich man is deciding to knock off for the day and call it a day as they express it and you are wondering why there is any need to hurry over anything the sky was so blue the sun so warm if you had been there you would have to sit on the grass of one of these lovely slopes and talk things over i am sure you would alas for some distance now we had been signs indicating that a place called 