The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1914-11-21

tweed skirt and left the room.
Juggernaut continued to finger q
typewriter letter which he had Just
taken from his pocket. II bore the adj
dress of a firm of motor makers and
said:
Strive beg to inform you that one of
our handy runabout 1912 horsepower cars,
for which we recently received your es-
teemed order. Is now in hand from the
varnishers' and will be delivered at Bel
ton hall on Tuesday next. AS requested.
we have given the clutch pedal and brake
a particularly easy spring. with a view to
the car being driven by a lady.
thanking you for past favors. We are.
sir. yours faithfully,
THE OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES AUTO
MOBILE COMPANY. LTD.
~Jugsernaut put the letter back in his
pocket.
In due course the Bolton motor con-
veyed its owner to Kilchester and left
him there.
"Shall come back for you. sir?" in
quired Mr.. Wick, the chauffeur. He
was a Kindly man. despite his exalted
station.
mo. thanks; I'll take the train. But
/ believe Lady Carr wants you to take
her over TO .Croxley Dene this az4e--
noon"
Her ladyship shall be took" said
Mr.. Stek. with an indulgent smile
Lady Carr was n favorite of his-and
forthwith returned to Bolton.
On running the car into the yard he
found the coachman. Mr.. Windebank,
a sadly diminished luminary In these
days. putting a polish upon an unap-
preciative quadruped.
you and your machine. Mr.. Wick"
announced Mr.. Windebank. lis wanted
round Mt IL sharp"
II was then Ills.
'Ho." replied the rufied Mr.. Wick.
feeling much as the Emperor Nero
might have felt on being requested by
the most recently immured early Chris
tian to see that the arena lions were
kept a bit quieter tomorrow night.
"Ho. indeedi''
''Them's your orders, Mr.. Wick" said
Mr.. Windebank, resuming the peculiar
dental obbligato which seems to be
the inseparable accompaniment of the
toilet Of a horse. temporarily suspend
cd on this occasion to enable the per-
former to discharge his little broad
side.
Mr.. Wick turned off various taps and
switches on his dashboard, and the
humming Of the engine ceased.
II take my ORDERS he proclaimed in
majestic tones. from the master and
missis direct, and from nobody else"
Mr.. Windebank. after spending some
moments in cropping for a crushing re-
joindcr. replied:
Well, you'd better go inside and get
'em. And you'd better 'ang a nose bag
on your sparkling plug in the mean
WHILE" he added, with sudden and
savage irrelevance.
Mr.. Wick adopted the former of these
two. suggestions. with the result that
at the hour of noon the car slid sub
hall. Presently Daphne appeared and,
disregarding the door which Mr.. Wick
was holding open for her. stepped up
into the drivers seattle throne itself
-and took the wheel in her vigorous
little hands.
Il am going to drive, vick," she OBJ
served c%heerfully.
Mr.. Wick preserved his self control
and smiled family.
Il suppose you have a license. my
| lady?' he inquired,
Gracious. no. l am only just be-
ginning" replied Daphne, who regard
ed a drivers license as a sort of re-
ward of merit. Il want you to teach
me. Which of these things Is the
clutch pedal?'
added Mr.. Wick with the air Of one
who intends TO stop this nonsense once
and for all, that you will find 1t very
stiff"
Thanks" said Daphne blankly.
And l suppose the other one is the
brake:"
Eyes, my lady; but
''Then we can start. How do / put
In the first speed?'
Mr.. Wick, in what can only be de-
scribed as a moriturus tie salute voice,
gave the required information, and the
car, after a dislocating jerk. moved off
at a stately four miles per hour. Pres
entity. with much slipping of the clutch
and buzzing Of the gear wheels, the
second and finally the third speed went
in and the car proceeded with all the
exuberance of its forty-five. horsepow-
err down the long straight drive. For
tunately the lodge gates stood open
and the road outside was clear.
Certainly Mr.. Wick behaved very
well. Although every wrench and jar
TO which his beloved engines were sub
jected appeared TO react directly upon
his own internal mechanism, he never
WINGED. Occasionally "A mufiled groan
or a muttered exclamation of my
tires.'' or MY ~differential" burst from
his overweight lips, but for the most
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