"I do; but that isn't proof."
"And that isn't getting us to Point View Lodge," came from Pepper. "I guess we'll have to walk!" he added, with something like a groan.
"Walk! We can't walk that distance," replied the young major.
"Well, we can't trust ourselves on these machines. We might if we had lots of time, but that we haven't got."
The three cadets stared blankly at each other. Here they were on a lonely road, and what to do none of them knew.
"Oh, if I only had Ritter here wouldn't I punch his head good!" muttered Pepper.
"Ritter will keep. Let us look over the machines and make up our minds what is to be done," said Jack.
The more they inspected the wheels the more hopeless appeared the task of fixing them up so they could be used.
"We simply haven't got time to bother with them," announced Jack. "We've got to get to the Lodge some other way."