Don't make a noise!"
"Goodness, isn't it dark! What a horrid night! Oh, what's that?"
"Gad, I thought I heard something over there in the croquet ground.
Sounded like some one mixing it up with a wicket. Quick! Out this
way!" He had her hand in his, and was rushing ruthlessly through
flower-beds toward the big gate, her travelling bag banging against
his knee with the insistence of a hundredweight.
Panting and gasping for breath, they finally floundered into the
roadway, and dashed off through the muddy surface toward the unseen
automobile.
She was half fainting with the panic of excitement as he started to
lift her into the tonneau of the car. "No, no! Please let me sit with
you in the front seat," she implored. She had her way, and a moment
later he was up beside her, both wrapped in the oil-cloths, the
drizzle blowing in their hot faces.
"We're off, thank God!" he whispered joyously, as the car leaped
forward under his hand.
"I wonder--oh, dear, how I wonder what mamma will say," she was crying
in his ear.
Dauntless grinned happily as the car shot onward through the blackness
of the night.
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