The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1920-01-30
ROADSTERS
TWO
BY DOROTHY DOUGLAS

up the miles as III furnishing until they
were all consumed.
Helen had invited large number
or friends, on the spur OF the mo-
ment. for weekend party. and there
was scant time 20 provision the
closed home before the first guest
should arrive. They would all motor
out from the city and would get n
mighty cold reception unless she hur-
ried bit.
Arriving ut Great Neck. Helen
drew up ut the butchers, and her
purchases put. as usual. In her car.
she went with them to the grocery
shop to make another order.
Her little roadster swung against
the curb q few yards beyond the
door. A delivery wagon was directly
In front. so Helen took the next best
position.
Inside the shop she made her large
order.
"Just put them In the car" she
told the grocery boy.
1.-THE roadster?" questioned the
boy, as, laden with the huge box,
he obeyed orders.
nod and smile answered him, and
Helen then turned TO write check i'm
payment.
IL was scant five minutes before
she emerged ready for the final spin
that would lead her. well-stocked with
food for the inner man, up 10 the big
driveway to her country home.
Helen sent swift glance into the
car, To make sure her big box was
safely there.
There was no box And the boy had
returned empty-handed TO the store
before she had finished making out
her check. She FASTENED back TO de-
mand Of the grocer the whereabouts
OF her order.
II put it I'm the roadster" said the
boy, and accompanied Helen to the
door. There his heart gave nasty
turn. There must have been two sim
liar cars by the curb and he had placed
the groceries In the wrong car.
Helen grasped the facts Immediately.
and scanned the main street for the
other roadster. If IL were I'm sight IL
would be quicker TO follow and get
her box. rather than walt until du-
plicate order was made up.
That's probably the car turning the
bend" she decided and swiftly jumped
into her seat. Being in tremendous
hurry, and trying to follow the direc-
ton of that fast disappearing car,
Helen did all the wrong things. She
flung into reverse gear, stalled her en-
CINE, almost banged head-on into the
one trolley in sight, and finally got
away.
She sped after the receding car
as IL she longed to kill every inhabi-
tant Of Great Neck. 1t seemed often
as II fortune were favoring that 9TH
er car. for when Helen seemed about
TO spring alongside 1t she invariably
had TO slacken for a truck or the sud-
den appearance Of child in the road
way.
Wrath was gathering in her eyes
and her cheeks were scarlet with eX-
element. Had she not been the
daughter Of well-knOwn towns
man Helen undoubtedly would have
screamed at the occupant OF that
twin roadster to stop and give her
her groceries. Time was getting
shorter, and she realized that her
hn
heels on her massive stone doorstep.
The man, for 1t was q man in gray
tweed cap pulled we'll over his eyes,
was ObliyiOuS to the fact that he was
being angrily followed.
But suddenly he turned off a long
bit of clear road, and in another sec
Ond it would have seemed as if the
Vanderbilt cup race was on, for the
two cars careened along that high
way as if in hot pursuit of a whirl-
wind. 1t was then that the man
knew he was being watched, but
merely as the occupant of one speedy
car trying TO pass the other.
They went hood to hood until
about the finish of clear road 1t
was then that the tweed cap driver
saw that his opponent was a girl.
He had not made the observation be-
fore, being well content with trying
the full capacity of his engines power.
Now, with true gentlemanly tact
he shut off gas. slowed almost imper-
and let the girl drive we'll
past him. He fell TO wondering then
If he had been racing with a mad
for she was turning straight
in the roadway so that collision
was only averted by swift. intelligent
use of the brake and steering wheel.
The sudden stop flung Davis with
a bang against his wheel. II was then
that he heartily gave vent TO an ex-
preston not fiattering TO woman driv-
ars.
You have my groceries :" the an
yry sentence flashed from one car TO
the other.
Davis stared at the flaming cheeks
and brilliant eyes OF his stormy accu-
ser, then dragging reluctant eyes
way he glanced down into his car.
Then he did the most unpardona- |
Die thing he had so far done. He |
aughed uprOariously.