Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-06-26
look-what do you see.-there beside

look-what do you see-there beside
the station!"
IAN automobile" the girl cried.
well, an automobiles ancestor, a
any rate laughed Minot. Vintage
Of 1905 SAY have suggestion
now If the chauffeur thinks he car
get you'll mean, hs-to San Marco
by one O'Clock, shall We
But the girl was already on hel
way
Come on!" Her eyes were brigh
with excitement. "We--oh, dear-tht
old trains started again"
mo matter-I'll stop IT," Mino
reached for the bell cord.
But do you dare-cant you be ar
rested?"
TOO late-I've done it. Let me
help you with those magazines
Quick! This way"
On the platform they met an irate
conductor, red and putting.
"Say-who stopped this train?" he
beloved.
II don't know-who usually stops
it," Minot replied, and he and the
girl slid by the uniform to the safety
of Sunbeam.
| The lean, lank, weary native who
lolled beside the passe automobile was
startled speeches. for moment by
the sight of two such attractive visi
tors in his unattractive town Then
he remembered. @
..Want a taxi, mister?'' he inquired
l"Take you up to the Sunbeam house
/; for quarter apiece
| Eyes. we do want taxi" Mlnot
began.
ITO San Marco cried the girl
breathlessly. Can you get us there
by one o'clock?"
"To-to-say, lady stammered the
Z, rustic chauffeur. THAT train you just
got off is going to San Marco
ooh. no, it isn't" Minot explained.
1--WE know better. It's going out into
the country to lie down under a shade
tree and rest"
1.-THE train is too slow" said the girl
81 must be in San Marco before one
o'clock. Can you get me-us-there
by then? Speak quickly, please"
The effect Of this request on the
chauffeur was to induce even greater
confusion.
"T-to-to San Marco" he stun.
bled. "W-well, say, that's new one
on me. Never had this car out o
Sunbeam yet"
"Please-please!" the girl pleaded.
Lady" said the chauffeur, I'D do
anything l could, within reason
Can you get us to San Marco by
one o'clock?" she demanded.
81 amt no prophet, lady" A humor.
GUS CLEAN came into his eye. but
ever since got this car been feelin'
sort O. reckless If you say so, III
bid all my family and friends good
BY. and we'll take a chance On san
Marco together"
That's the spirit laughed Minot.
"But forget the family and friends. >
He placed his baggage in the front
of the car, and helped the girl into
the tonneau. With q show OF speed
the countryman went around to the
front of the car and began to crank.
He continued to crank with agon'
lied face In the course of a few min
utes sounds Of terrific disturbance
| came from inside the car. Still. like
hurdy-gurdy musician, the man
cranked.
81 say" Minot inquired, "has your
machine got the Sextette from Luc1a!,
well there's been a lot of things
wrong with it," the man replied, but
7 don't think it's had that yet"
The girl laughed, and such laugh,
Dick Minot was sure, had never been
heard in Sunbeam before. At that
moment the driver leaped to his seat,
,, breathing hard. and had it out with
the wheel
"Exeunt. laughingly, from Sun.
beam" said Minot in the girls ear.
The car rolled automatically from
the little settlement and out into the
sand and heat of narrow road.
Eight miles to San Marco" said
the driver out Of the corner of his
mouth. "sit tight. I'm going to let
her out some"
Again Dick Minot glanced at the
girl beside him. Fate was in jovial
mood today to grant him this odd ride
in the company Of one SO charming!
He could not have told what she
wore, but he knew she was all IN
white. and he realized the wisdom OF
white on a girl who had, in her halr
and eyes, colors to delight the most
exacting. About her chung perfume
never captured in q bottle; her chin
was the chin of a girl with sense
OF humor; her eyes sparkled with
the thrill of their adventure together
And the dimple in repose now, be
came the champion dimple Of the
world.
Minot tried to think Of some spright