Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-07-25

I jumped in and whipped up. The morse
was not a furious horse. No doubt he
was an intelligent animal. At least he
was thoughtful one; you could see that
by the way he held his head down as If
meditatng. When I applied the whip to
him he wagged his tail. and tat showed
that he was good-natured morse and
not of an over-sensitive disposition; but
he was not a furious horse. He was the
kind OF horse that nothing on earth could
drive any fury into. So We logged along.
and Mr.: Dodds lit cigar and leaned back
and folded his arms. was sorry for HIM,
for it was an unearthly hour for a man
of his age to be up at, but presently
felt better. for he fell asleep, and l let
the horse creep along as quietly as l
could. When we were about up to the
stalled viborg-Potzcommer l drew the
rig up at one side of the road and got
out and took my bicycle from tie back
Of the buggy, and my oil can, and rode
about a hundred feet furiously.
Ferguson was just about to upbrad me
for having been so slow, but l explained
that 1t is not an easy matter to get a
can of gasoline at midnight. and that
shut him up, and then l told him that l
passed a man in a buggy, and that the
man was driving furiously, and that
pleased Dolly, and we started again in a
good humor.
suppose the racket the machine made
when 1t started must have Weakened Mr..
Dodds. / knew 1t must. and wondered
what he would think of me If he awak-
ened and found himself all alone on the
road; SO l made Ferguson stop the ma
chine, and listened and told him l was
sure 1 heard a horse galloping and that
he had better drive ahead full speed while
l took my wheel and ran back to see If I
couldn't throw the pursuers off the track
l did not wait for an answer. but went.
Mr.. Dodds was almost angry, but I
told him I had driven furiously and yet
not recklessly. until had heard an auto
mobile ahead Of US evidently stalled In
the road, and that had taken my wheel
that 1t was really the Viborg- Potzcom-
mer. and that now we must whip up and
drive as furiously as we could, for we
knew we were on the right track. That
satisfied him. and hoisted my wheel
aboard and whipped up.
could hear the Viborg- Potzcommer
grinding away like a water mill ahead Of
us, and by all the symptoms In the sound
I knew it was losing speed. as 1t had a
habit of doing. ! whipped the horse and
1t wagged Its tail and wandered on up
the road I held it in as we'll as 1 could
with the reins, but the cool night air
was having an effect on it and 1t wanted
to go faster. And the faster the horse
wanted to go the slower the Viborg-
Potzcommer seemed to be going. ! feared
every minute that we would overtake the
car. and 1 didn't know what Ferguson
would say If he saw me driving up with
Dolly's father beside me- He would never
have faith in me again an assistant
eloper. So l refined in the horse, and
refined it in. but still 1t kept gaining on
the automobile. l got the horse down to
walk. and then the automobile got
down to a creep. The horse could not go
across the road to give the automobile a
better chance to keep in the lead. and
then the automobile stopped. 1 never did
see such an automobile.
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might take Ferguson hours to get that
old car to running again, and / couldn't
pull up the horse and stop and wait until
Ferguson got his repairs completed.
did not know what Mr.. Dodds would
think If 1 did that but l could guess
There was only one thing to do, and I
did 1t. / shouted to Mr.. Dodds to look
out, that the horse smelled an auto, and
was going to bolt. and then 1 shouted,
Whoa there! Whoa there, will you!" and
laid on with the whip heartily. as some
drivers do to soothe a horse when it is
frightened, and gave it the reins. I guess
the horse was surprised. 1t hesitated a
moment and then 1t jumped It came as
life, and we sailed down the road and
past that Vfborg- Potzcommer and on into
the darkness. and I kept soothing the
horse with the whip until we were be-
yond hearing distance. and then pulled
up to walk again.
That was narrow escape! l said
That was very narrow escaped
Escape?" said Mr.. Dodds. II don't
know what you mean. Were we in dan
ger?''
Danger" exclaimed for 1 saw had
nearly put my foot in it by my words
I should say so! Do you think I would
have let this beast carry US by that auto
mobile If l had not seen danger? Why,
1T was certain death II we had not come
by at full speed. Didn't you see that
that was Ferguson and Dolly? And didn't
you see that he had pistol in his hand ?
Didn't you hear him shoot and hear the
bullet whistle by our heads?"
Mr.. Dodds looked at me blankly.
Did We?' he asked. Did we hear
that?'
Certainly we did," assured him. "I
heard 1t. and you heard it. There is no
doubt about 1t. l tell you Ferguson is a
dangerous man. 1 did not mind the bull
lets on my own account, but 1 did not
want to let him murder you Think how