Perhaps John had the same thought in his mind. The car bumped furiously, and all but overturned.
The Professor disappeared round the angle of the reservoir.
CHAPTER XX
The Professor's Drive
It all happened so quickly that there was no time to think or wonder, hardly time even to cry out.
Something that looked like a hand, emerging from a white cuff and a dark coat sleeve, appeared for one instant above the parapet of the reservoir just by the angle, and almost the same instant two heads, surmounted by the close green hats of the Redlands girls, shot up to one side of it. The arm waved wildly, and then disappeared with suddenness below the parapet, the two heads diving down after it with startling celerity.
If ever John's new car travelled, it travelled then!
Joey forgot everything else—the match—the roaring furious wind, the sense of cold and hunger—what was happening at the reservoir? And then they were there!
John ran the car into the grass of the roadside; the reservoir stood a little back from the road. He brought the car to a standstill, and grasped the crutches which Joey had ready for him. Together they tore round the angle of the great reservoir, Joey leading.