The Breton-Melville was humming like a huge top. The road flowed away beneath the wheels as though it traveled on a great spool in the direction opposite to their flight. The girls caught their breaths and held on with both hands.
In half a minute, it seemed, Dan had brought his car up till it was nosing the rear of Burton Poole’s automobile. Wiley Moyle uttered a startled cry:
“What you going to do, Dan? Jump her?”
CHAPTER XIX
AN EXCITING RUN
Wiley had shouted the joke so loudly that those in the forward car heard him, and it was repeated to Chance Avery. As Dan swerved to the left a bit, preparatory to running out beside Burton Poole’s car, Chance glanced around. They could not see him scowl, for his mask and goggles covered his face.
But it was plain that the captain of the Riverdale Club was not going to be beaten so easily. He forced the Poole car ahead, and Dan immediately gave up all intention of passing the first automobile.
“Go to it, boy!” shouted Fisher Greene. “Show ’em what’s in this car.”
“No,” said Dan, easily. “We’re not out for a race, but for a pleasant run.”
“You’re afraid!” mocked Wiley.