The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-28
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back from winning cups in South
America.
South America and racing cars
were two things Stephen liked to
hear about. He hoped some day to
be the South American representa-
tive for a good car, and racing driv-
ers we're his boyhood idols. He
hadn't quite grown up in respect to
hero worshiping.
For at least five dances he forgot
all about Pamela. Remembering, ne
started cut to find her but fate, III
the person of a pretty red-haired
girl, waylaid him. She demanded a
dance. Stepher recalled having met
her in a group when he arrived.
He didn't want to be rude. But
they hadn't danced long before he
found himself looking into Pamela'S
darkening countenanCe as she swept
past him with young man whose
whispered words we're falling on un-
needing ears.
I'm in for it, Stephen thought.
And SO he was. At the end of the
dance ne sought out Pamela and
found her furiouSly angry.
IT know where you were" she de-
clared hotly when he tried to tell
her of the racing driver. Every
one know where anyone is when
they're with that red-headed An
gela PerkinS!"
"I give you my word. -"
ooh, save it. Anyway, I'm tired
of this; let's get out of here"
Certainly"
Stephen was little angry now
himself. After all, no girl had any
string on him.
I'll drive" Pamela said shortly
when they got into her car. Stephen
had driven to the club but now
he took the seat beside her with
out a word.
DERHAPS, had he attempted to
L defend himself, Pamela'S anger
would have dispelled itself in quar-
reling with him, but she did not
know how to meet silence.
Not Stephens, at any rate. The
silence of overaWed SerVitorS was
a different matter.
She had a grudge of long stand
ing against Angela Perkins,
grudge born of rivalry. She knew
that Angela had attached Stephen
for the purpose of annoying hel
and she honestly believed that Ste
phen had attempted to lie about it
They drove in bitter silence fol
mile or two; then suddenly she
brought her car to a stop. She asked
Stephen to get out and take a look
at the rear wheels. She said she
thought she had a fiat.
Nonsense" Stephen replied
CURLY.
Pamela started to open the door
OH her side. It was only a bluff.
AS he stepped out of the car and
moved to the rear, Pamela put it
in gear and roared away turning
her head to call back something
that Stephen made out to be a Sug-
geStion that he walk back and drive
home with Angela.
Stephen SWore; then grinned.
walked! Can you beat that?"
Pamela was far down the road
before he turned back toward the
club. Needless of danger she drove
on at high speed, forgetting that
ahead of her lay a short stretch of
road under repair.
Even when she saw the warning
signel lights she did not slow in
time to avoid tearing onto the rut-
ted road with momentum that
brought disaster.
It came with the ear-Splitting
noise Of a cannon shot, a jagged
blowout that f1attened a rear tire
in less than a second and sent the
car lurching and careening nadly
from side to side.
Pamela tried desperately to right
it, but she knew when II came to a
stop finally, directly across the
roadway, that luck had favored her.
She slumped weakly back, shaken
and white. But the next instant,
glancing up the road in the direc-
4 she had come, her eyes met a
sight that froze her to her seat with
new fear.
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