"No, I can't say that I do," answered Captain Ben. "I think we shall never be able to get to Grand View to-night."
"That's too bad," went on Daddy Bunker. "I'm not worrying about Amy and Mun Bun and Margy," he added. "They will be all right in your bungalow. But what are we going to do?"
"Well, we shall have to put up somewhere over night," answered Captain Ben.
"Oh, are we going to stay at a hotel?" asked Rose. "I like hotels; don't you, Russ?" she asked her brother.
"Sometimes I do, when they have good things to eat," he answered, but his last words were almost lost in a crash of thunder. When the echoes of that had quieted down, Captain Ben said:
"I don't believe there is a hotel within ten miles of us, and we certainly can not travel that much farther in this storm."
"Then what are we going to do?" asked Daddy Bunker.
"Can't we stay in the auto all night?" asked Russ. "We have some blankets and things in our satchels."
"I'm afraid none of you would sleep much," said Captain Ben, as he slowed the machine to pass a bad spot in the road. "No, what we shall have to do," he added, "will be to stop at the first house we come to and ask them if they can take us in for the night. Some farmer may be kind enough to let us stay in his barn, if there isn't room in the house, but I guess they can manage, even if they have to make beds on the floor."
"I like to sleep on the floor!" spoke up Laddie. "It doesn't hurt then if you fall out."