“You’re a wonder, old man,” Harry said; “what was the matter with her? I tried everything.”
“Did you say please?” Brent asked him.
“No, but I said about everything else,” Harry said.
“Do you want to run that Ford or shall I?” Brent asked him.
“Stay where you are,” Harry said. “I’ll run the Ford. Go ahead, we’ll follow.”
Some of the kids piled into the small car and the rest of them came in with us. We were all separated together.
“This treasure-hunt is developing into a parade,” Brent said. “Look behind, will you? He can’t even get the flivver started.”
But pretty soon we saw them coming along, quite a distance behind us.
I looked at the clock alongside the speedometer and saw that it was nearly two o’clock in the morning. “Time flies,” I said.
Grove said, “Sure, it should be arrested for speeding.”