The Clovis news. [volume] (Clovis, N.M.) 1907-1929, 1913-06-26

You've struck the perfect course.
Stanton" declared o famous rival.
upon Offering his congratulations after
suffering a mastery defeat IN q ave
mile contest. He did not like the 9th
or man. but he was obliged 70 admire
him.
How aor' Querisd Stanton Is III
cinctly.
Between r~ecklessness and over-oau-
ton"
1t was quite true. with Floyd be-
side him, Stantop's driving was AZ
darlngIy brilliant. but Characterised by
some rational consideration Of the pos
sibilities Of disaster. Why3 No one
had time to speculate.
II was commencing to trouble Stan
ton himself, this growing affection for
his mechanician that threatened to be-
come an absorbing need. He had
never needed any one. be had been
self-sufacient and self-centered; and
now he felt a blank chill at tle idea
OF losing the society Of this boy-man.
It chafed and fretted him with a
tense OF bondage; when he felt the
cords draw most he turned upon
Floyd and worried him savagely.
Floyd laughed. And Floyd's laughter
would have disarmed a Cossack. When
be did not laugh, he flashed back,
spark to powder, so that they quar-
relied on an average four times a day.
And they spent every available mo-
ment together. until their friendship
became patent v to the skeptical
Mr.. Green.
we can plan out some Of our fac
tory affairs on the way home. on the
train" Stanton arranged, at the close
Of the last day, when taking temporary
leave Of his mechanician at the Mer-
curry camp.
I'm planning a fender for each side
OF the Comet racing car. so that when
you feel like knocking In a few
lengths Of the inheld fence. as you did
this afternoon. wen be ready for Il"
Knocked Floyd, his effervescent youth
heady as champagne.
Fence or nc fence. we won," Stan
ton retorted i~ndulgently.
"Of counsel You kept right on driv-
ing the front Of your car, so the rear
just naturally had to climb back on
the road and follow. I expected that:
You wero too busy to stop for a little
tEing like side-wiping a feace."
you seemed to expect It" the 9TH
or c~orroborated. He looked with in
terested curiosity at his n%onchalant
assistant III / am too busy to wor-
ry at such times. Floyd; you are not.
Don't you ever think OF what is likely
to happen when we are on the verge
Of a smash3'
Floyd paused. turning his large clear
eyes on the queationer.
There's Just one thing I'm asking, {"
he gravely returned. THAT Is. that
when 1t comes. It will be a good
smash. No one minds just dying
we're sure to do It some day. anyhow
but to be mussed up and patched to-
gether again, mol Now" his ~irrepres-
sible smile glanced out again, that's
Why / feel 80 safe with you; there Is
a deadly hnality about your driving
methods"
That Is about enough, Stanton sig.
nihed, "In see you on the train.
then"
They did meet on the train. and
passed long hours OF travel 10 work
and discussion. The other passengers
came to take a decided. If furtive m
terest in the two who sat opposite
each other IA absorbed conversation
or argument, making drawings on en-
velopes and timetables TO illustrate
their points and even leaving rows OF
figures upon the menu cards IN the
dining-car
Incidentally, both men displayed a
thorough training iRmechanicnl de-
sign and construction. stanton'a far
the more finished and scientific.
IT did nol know Floyd marVeled.
al last
Stanton forestalled the question by
ipdinerently explaining.
n am a mechanical engineer; {
graduated from college az twenty-Ono;
that was i've years ago. You have
dropped your pencil What do you say
to staying over half q day at Buffalo
and visiting YOU iactory2"
Zine approved Floyd. a trine
slowly "A half day, not more We
have got to make ready for that Cup
race"
Three weeks on. You're getting as
old-womanish as Green
"Too bad. stlil ] have to bo az the
Mercury plant when you don't Half
o day ought 10 be enough.
stanton surveyed him, Initiated yet