The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-10-14
CHAPTER 29. ARE YOU HURT?"

Ndi SOI up 'VO say goodbye at 6 quarter to three. Her heart was like a hot burning coal. She had had to sit by Robert Leonard to take her coffee from his hand, and to listen while he talked. Her burning anger lit a bright color ir her cheeks and she made her eyes brilliant. She felt as if any think she touched would be liable to scorch or go up in a little puff Of smoke. It was a dreadful feel ing, of course, but it made her very sure of herself.
 When she got up to go, Leon ard looked at his watch and ex- claimed.
 "I'd no idea it was SO late! I ought to be attending to my in- cubators at this very moment. Give me a lift as far as my gate, will you, Jervis? My cars dead till can get someone out from Croyston."
 Impossible to refuse, of course. Nan wondered whether Jervs would have liked to refuse.
 He said: All right" with an air of complete indifference.
 At any rate she wouldn't have to sit next to the man. F. F. would have that pleasure. F. F. wouldn't mind, of course. It was only she who felt like an explod- ing bomb when Robert Leonard was anywhere about. She got in beside Jervis, and heard the other two settling themselves behind her F. F. full of amiable chatter.
 Did you have a car in South America? I forget where you were. Were you ever in Mexico? Shock ing roads, but not so bad as San Pedro. The Madalena roads are pretty hard to beat. had an old flivver there. She was won der She jumped the holes like a rabbit"
 They moved off, slid down the drive and coasted as far as MT. Leonard's gate. He got out and made his farewells
 You must come and see my place some day, Mrs. Jervis. Thanks for the lift, Jervis. Goodbye, MT. Francis"
 "Au revoire," said Ferdinand.
 The afternoon was very hot. There was nothing surprising in the fact that Robert Leonard found it necessary to pass handkerchief across his forehead. Ferdinand. looking back, admitted this, but could not understand why Leon ard should have quite so shaky a hand.
 Jervis wasn't thinking about Robert Leonard He looked once at Nan, and was aware of dis tinct relief. She had not golden hair, seablue eyes. regular features, or statuesque figure. He was feeling a strong distate for all these things.
 Mans firm round chin, her brown hair, her steady grey eyes. and the rather childish contour of her face were as complete a contrast as could be found to the charms of his cousin Rosamund. His gaze dwelt upon his wife with approval.
 They began to descend the hill, and before they came to the steep est part he put the car into low gear For a couple of hundred yards the gradient was about one in seven, and the surface bad | They had on their right high bank out of which the road had been cut, and on the left mar row strip of rough grass with an occasional scrawny bush. and be- yond that a low parapet of loose stones which defended a sheer drop to the sea below.
 Jervis had scarcely shifted down when amongst his other thoughts there slid into his mind a con- viction that there was something wrong with the car. The con- viction became a certainty and took entire possession of him. The steering was bad, the wheel wob- bling, and there was a drag in the left.
 A drag to the left was a drag to the cliff. The wheel kicked