The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1910-12-30
CHAPTER V.-cortinued.

.,,o sincerely. though somewhat sur
r,sod|v. I'm awfully sorry. dear
ehild. and we shall miss you OF
,ourse But you mustn't think of
roing If your head aches. Go up
stoirs and lie down while, why
dont YOU, and I'll have some tea
sont IN TO YOU. It's awfully good
for headache" And she spoke to
4ha footman who waited at the door
Of the automobile.
81 will. thanks Sorry to miss the
trtp." replied the girl. You're an
angel Agatha." And with another
farewell word or two we left her and
had started on our way to Northbury.
And now comes the very strangest
mart of this rather strange or at least
unusual attempt to make a match and
win fortune for friend at one and
the same time on the part of Dearest
and myself. BY Jove, it certainly
did give me a start when | discovered
but this was the way it happened
not to get ahead of my story.
N We had made pretty quick run
NO Northbury and had been
E spectators at an exhibition of some
& rather fast cricket which ! had been
+ pretty keen about. The two teams
had played even until the second half
fShen Corcoran who was guarding the
wicket for the Lowshires-but don't
suppose the details of the game are
OF very general interest, after all
Odd thing. but I've never been abe
to make Dearest understand It at
ALL gave up trying years ago. It's
the only thing in the world we aren't
equally enthusiastic about. She won't
8 admit It, but sometimes I'm afraid it's
because she prefers the American
game Of baseball. Fancy! But of
course IL she does it's all the fault
Of that American stepfather of hers
for bringing her up in the States. But
then, naturally, he couldn't help
being an American try to remem-
Der that,
AS was saying. however, we had
seen the match played to the end in
spite Of the languid interest dis
played by the feminine members Of
our party. and had lunched at the
Northbury inn. a jolly little den of
place, and at about half after two
were speeding towards home again.
The roads were fairly decent,
though there had been a good deal
OF rain lately, and the machine had
been running along so smoothly that
1t did my heart good to see her. We
mad left the main road when we had
passed Wye village, for one that led
more directly to the castle, and had
Slowed down as the road turned out
to be rougher than | thought-when
the worst happened. | was driving
myself, and in steering to clear a
luttlng tree | ran the big car straight
unto the dickens of a rut and our hind
wheel went In to stay. l killed the
engine at once and jumped out to
see what was to be done, disguised
enough, / can tell you, though of
course | couldn't possibly have known
the thing was so deep, for it was half
nlled with water. This short cut is
1avorite one of mine, though my
cnauTeurs have often warned me
against taking big car through the
woods that cover Wyckoff rise at this
point. The trees are so thick and
the road so narrow.
The worst of the business now, as
soon found out, was that there was
no jack to be found in the cars xii
OF tools with which to raise her, and
l remembered with chagrin that
mad taken 1t out myself in hunting
Tor something else and had left it in
the garage. Even the satisfaction oi
planning some one else was denied me
ana looked at Peterson, the chauf
feur, in dismay.
WHAT'S to be DONE" | asked. but
received no help from that ouarter
only dismal shake of the head.
Nevertheless assistance I did re
celVe, though rather unexpectedly
inc accident had occurred, as have
SAID in the middle of the woods JUS
where two roads crossed, and stand
ing at the entrance to one of these
roads | now observed a small boy. &
httie freckle-faced village lad. who
: %2red at us as if he'd never seen al
automobile before. and they're surely
common enough!
But 1t appeared that he had. fol
when Freer remarked uselessly ant
{ OBVIOUSLY for the third time. "Wha
oeastiy luck to have forgotten tn,
JACK. Now If only it had happened
out on the main road instead of il
this shortcut, we would have stood
chance of borrowing one from an
o.ner carl" the little chap who wa
standing by, came forward and in
formed us in shrill childish pip,
that If It was another machine W,
WANTED he'd seen a big Teller" com,
through that same wood not min
70 ago and 1t had stopped not IA
way. And he pointed a grimy thuml
Ter his shoulder toward the .ca.
at led to our left.