“She is safe too.”
“What a fearful ride I have had,” went on the lady, with a shudder. “It was awful! The auto got entirely beyond my control. Where is the brave young gentleman who stopped it for me?”
“Here he is,” answered Captain Putnam, pointing to Jack.
“What, you! Why, you—er—you are the young man that—that had the trouble with my husband a few days ago,” faltered the lady, and reddened.
“Never mind about that,” said Jack, quickly. He remembered what the lady had said on that occasion. “I’m glad I happened to be on the bicycle.”
“You sprang from the wheel into the machine?”
“Yes, ma’am.”
“It was a brave thing to do. I thank you from the bottom of my heart.”
A few minutes later a buggy came along, being driven furiously by the man who owned the automobile. He leaped out and ran toward his wife and his little niece.
“Are they hurt?” he demanded.