"You wouldn't dare! You wouldn't dare!"

"Dare? Huh! Don't make the driver laugh!"

"I'll get help!"

"Yep. Sure. Fact, there's a car comin' toward us. 'Bout a mile away I'd

make it, wouldn't you? Well, dollface, if you make one peep--over the

bank you go, both of you dead as a couplin'-pin. Smeared all over those

rocks. Get me? And me--I'll be sorry the regrettable accident was so

naughty and went and happened--and I just got off in time meself. And

I'll pinch papa's poke while I'm helping get out the bodies!"

Till now she hadn't believed it. But she dared not glance at the

approaching car. It was their interesting guest who steered the Gomez

past the other; and he ran rather too near the edge of the road ... so

that she looked over, down.

Beaming, he went on, "I'd pull the rough stuff right here, instead of

wastin' my time as a cap'n of industry by taking you up to see the

scenery in that daisy little gully off the road; but the whole world can

see us along here--the hicks in the valley and anybody that happens to

sneak along in a car behind us. Shame the way this road curves--see too

far along it. Fact, you're giving me a lot of trouble. But you'll give

me a kiss, won't you, Gwendolyn?"

He bent down, chuckling. She could feel his bristly chin touch her

cheek. She sprang up, struck at him. He raised his hand from the wheel.

For a second the car ran without control. He jabbed her back into the

seat with his elbow. "Don't try any more monkey-shines, if you know

what's good for you," he said, quite peacefully, as he resumed steering.

She was in a haze, conscious only of her father's hand fondling hers.

She heard a quick pit-pit-pit-pit behind them. Car going to pass? She'd

have to let it go by. She'd concentrate on finding something she

could---Then, "Hello, folks. Having a picnic? Who's your little friend in the

rompers?" sang out a voice beside them. It was Milt Daggett--the Milt

who must be scores of miles ahead. His bug had caught up with them, was

running even with them on the broad road.




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