“But my car’s tires are easy to change,” objected Lily.
“Not easy for novices,” said Mrs. Remington. “Do you think that perhaps we had better turn back?”
“Oh, no,” replied Ethel; “we’re too liable to run over the same tacks again. Anyway, the girls have to learn. I’ll drive slowly, and probably they will catch up to us.”
“If they haven’t been kidnapped by the occupants of the red car,” observed Alice.
“No,” said Marjorie, slowly, straining her eyes in the distance; “because the red car—is—coming towards us now!”
A minute later the mysterious car passed them again, amid a cloud of smoke.
NEW ACQUAINTANCES.
CHAPTER VI
NEW ACQUAINTANCES.
When Florence and Daisy learned that in accordance with Marjorie’s system they were to drive together in the smaller car, they both appeared somewhat distressed. For, of the six girls in the party, these two were undoubtedly the most inexperienced.