"Look!" cried Whitey Shane.
The great car was turning to the left. Its driver, guided by a strange intuition, had sensed the situation in an instant. For a moment the gangsters thought the big car was out of control. It was heading directly toward the edge of the quarry!
Then the powerful car swerved to the right. Its wheels skirted the edge of the threatening pit. The huge roadster was leaning to the left, almost toppling toward the depths below! It righted itself and shot directly into the path of the rolling coupe.
Brakes screamed as the two cars met. The superman who drove the huge car brought his machine to an instant stop within a dozen feet. The rear of the coupe crashed against the front of the great roadster. The impact was a sharp one. The rescue car was on the brink of the precipice.
The force of the coupe would have driven an ordinary car over the edge. But this monster machine withstood the blow. For the fraction of a second it began to rise and shift toward the danger zone. Then it became motionless, blocking the coupe from destruction.
Jake realized that this was no chance occurrence. This huge automobile had come from nowhere. Its driver had accomplished the seemingly impossible. The helpless man was saved!
"Give him the works," exclaimed Jake to Whitey, "Give him the works. Quick!" As he uttered the order, Jake Michener headed the touring car directly toward the locked automobiles.
Whitey Shane was leaning from the side, his automatic drawn. His first bullet spat against the side of the anchored roadster. The next whirred through the top.
Whitey Shane was timing his third shot. Jake Michener, grimly driving the touring car in second gear, was swinging the wheel with one intent — to crash the side of the rescuer's car, and to do what the slow-moving coupe had not done — hurl the big car to its destruction!
At that instant, the quick staccato of revolver fire replied to Whitey Shane's shots. A bullet struck the aiming gangster in the arm. Another crashed solidly through the windshield and found its mark in Jake Michener's chest.