"Come on! Come on!" she called as she stopped at the curb and, tooted the horn. "Hurry! I want to overtake Walter. He and Jack have just gone out!"
"Oh, of course, you want to overtake Walter," answered Isabel, with the emphasis on "Walter."
"Well, never mind about that, but do come," urged Cora. "What do you think of my car?" she asked as the girls hastened to her. "Isn't it a beauty?"
She handled the machine with considerable skill, for she had had some practice on Jack's car.
"Think of it!" exclaimed Elizabeth. "Why, it's simply beyond thoughts; it's—overwhelming!"
"A perfect dream," agreed Belle. "Aren't you the lucky girl, though!"
"Guess I am," admitted Cora. "See, I can start it without cranking"; and to prove it, when the engine was quiet, she threw forward the spark lever, shifted the gasolene one a trifle, and the motor began to throb and hum rapidly.
"Good!" cried Isabel.
"Paul told me about it," went on Cora. "The Paul, you know. He said when a charge of gas is in one of the cylinders all you have to do is to send a spark to the cylinder, and—"
"It didn't take you long to learn," complimented Bess, while Isabel said: