The evening world. Newspaper, September 8, 1922, Page 24

-y. | | | | | Seeecieemmemasmuanae THE EVENING WORLD, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1927, SSN = SS sou a EVENING WORLD'S WEEKLY AUTO ROAD MA ND Yi Sour MC, TEAMDOAT ROUTE KEW LONDON . Qe fe) g AUTOMOBILE Gy ws OF AMERICA /® BUREAU OF TOURS GT AND STATE OFFIGALS TOPEN CLOSED CAR SHON Dealers Plan Big Opening for Exposition in Grand Central Palace. Gov. Miller will attend the elaborate upening ceremontes planned for the tig closed car show, Saturday Sept. 23 to Sept. 30, as will also Mayor Ily Jan, unless the arrangements of the show committee miss fire somewhere Both luminaries will be honored with special invitations, delivered person- ally by the show committee. In the case of the Governor, a hy- droplane—the speediest 1n America, it is said—will leave the Battery a few days before the show, bearing the show committee, headed, it is planned, by Glenn A. Tisdale, President of the Automobile Merchants’ Association of New York, under whose auspices the show will be given. “Mr. Tisdale, who is also Presiden’ of the Franklin Motor Car Company of New York, happens to be an old friend of the Governor and a warm champion of the State Executive's capabilities. He anticipates a most cordial reception by the Governor in acknowledging the show committee's invitation and a renewal of their old acquaintanceship. Special arrangements are being made in order that the hydroplane may alight immediately tn front of the capitol’s steps, following tts flight up the Hudson, Efforts will be also made to make the trip a memorable one by an attempt to break the New York to Albany flight record. To this end, one of a committee of newspaper men will be asked aboard to officially attest the hydroplane's time, which will also be officially attested by a press committee at both the starting and finishing points. In the instance of the invitation to Mayor the show committee has planned an equally elaborate arrange- ment for tho delivery of {ts message, befitting his honor's office, but, of course, on entirely different lines. Besides the show committee of seven members, every dealer member of the Automobile Merchants’ Association, which embraces the representation of almost every well known make of automobile in New York, will attend the invitation ceremonies extended the elty’s chief executive. Of course, the finest automobile equipages that the members possess—and it may be guessed these will only be the finest and latest closed models—will be used to escort the association's members ‘ to the very steps of the City . Tom Moore, the manager of the Show, states to less than ninety to 226 of the world’s finest cars will car- ry the association's members, which will in itself prove @ spectacle well “worth witnessing, escorted, most like- ly, by the pick of the traffic squad. on the south shore. The road along the north shore of Long Island goes through a more rolling country and 1s considered somewhat more attractive than the south shore from a scenic viewpoint Motoring on Long Island Most Delightful Now To reach the north shore from the Queensboro Bridge, after — going Every auto owner planning a Saturday or Sunday tour should be| through the Plaza, turn left into Jackson Avenue, which is followed to Flushing. For College Point and Whitestone turn left into Whitestone Avenue. From Flushing continue straight out Broadway through Bay- side, Douglaston and Little Neck, There {s also a connection from in possession of the very last word on road conditions before making a final decision. By arrangement with O. M. Wells, Chief Roadman of the Automobile Club of America, The Evening World on Friday of each week will print a special article on tours that cannot fail to prove of incalculable value to owners. Save yourself tire troubles, iecnnapdee toe ylowek HUE SERR ieonet breakdowns and kindred vexations by consulting The Evening World| yacht Club and Port Washington. maps and facts about roads. From Roslyn, there is a road skirting rt the shore of Hempstead Harbor . M. Wells. through Glenwood Landing to Bea yA th Automobile] turning south on Hempstead Avenue} Cilff, then east through Glen Cove (Chief Roadman, the to Rockville Centre. Motorists going Club of America.) and Locust Valley to Oyster Bay. ‘There is also @ good road from Locust Valley to Bayville and from Oyster Pay to Bayville, where the ferry is taken from Greenwich. From Roslyn the direct road goes through Green- ville, Brookville, East Norwich and Cold Spring Harbor to Huntington, where connections are made to West Neck and Lloyd Neck. There is also a good road running down to Haleside on Huntington Bay. From Huntington continue due east through Centreport to Northport, where connections can be made for Fort Salunga and Eaton Neck rom Northport the route turns south to the Jericho Turnpike, then east to Smithtown Branch, where a left turn is made at a white church and the North Country Road fol- lowed through St. James and East Setauket to Port Jefferson. There is a good cross-\sland route from Port Jefferson throuch Coram to Patch- ogue. From there on the route along the north shore goes through Miller Place, Shoreham and Wading River to Riverhead, then through James- Port, Cutchogue and Southold to Greenport. There ts also a good road to Orient Point. The only ferries from the north shore of Long Island are from Col- lege Point to Clason Point—Bayville and Oyster Bay Jefferson to Bridgepc rt—Sag Harbor to Greenwich—Port | |WIDE INTEREST IN “SAFETY CAMPAIGN Consideral interest 1s being mani- fested in ter New York's Safety Campaign by the Rorough of Brooklyn and the Brooklyn Motor Vehicle Dealers’ Association, Inc., will play a prominent | part tn tt during “Safety Week" Oct |8-14. Victor A. Lersner will be in | charge of a spectal Brooklyn committee co-operating with the Gary Committee | which will have general supervision in j all five boroughs. The plans already outlined by the |committee paraltel in many details the campaign considered by the Rrooklyn Motor Vehicle Dealers’ Association. The Grand Jurors’ Association, which has done considerable preliminary work for | such a campaign has joined hands with the Chamber of Commerce, and Mr. Lerener, who was Chairman of the Grand Jurors’ Committee, now heads the new general committee of Brooklyn Tt 1s the plan of Mr. Lersner’s com- mittee to enlfst the active co-operation of all citizens, the welfare and trade associations, the churches and schools, | city officials and traffic court judges, | th order to put across Brooklyn's cam- palgn with such effectiveness that | safety principles will be permanently impressed on the public mind, acasindlpiiainanals CIVILITY CAMPAIGN GETTING RESULTS. | Greater ctvility on the part of the one mtilion motor truck drivers tn this coun- | try ts anticipated from now on by reason | of the response that has been made to the educational campaign being carried on by the National Motor Truck Com- mittee of the National Aytomoblie Chamber of Commerce. re to Shelter Island—Greenport to New|- ‘rhe pamphlet that fs being used in London, The last mentioned ferry|the campaign, “Common Sense on the does not carry lomousines or cars| Highway,” has already reached a cir- with a standing top. Hotel accommo- dations are most excellent and motor- ists from the Southern States, the Middle-West end the Far West should include in thelr itinerary a trip over Long Island, known as “the Sunrise Trail.” culation of 125,000 coples among truck manufacturers, dealers and fleet opera- tors. Requests for additional copies are being received datly from some of the largest truck users who comment in highly favorable terms and show a keen desire to stimulate Interest among further down the South Shore can take Greenwich Street out of Hemp- stead to Freeport, Merrick Avenue to Merrick, Hicksville Road to Massape- qua, and Broadway from Farmingdale to Amityville. For Babylon and points beyond on the South Shore, to avoid congestion, continue straight on from Hempstead to Farmingdale, then over the Farm- ingdale Road. The Farmingdale Road ts only a dirt road in fair condition during the summer months but should be included tn the State system and hard-surfaced so that It could be used the year round, as it 1s one of the most prominent trunk line connections on the Island. From Babylon on through Bay, shore, Islip, East Islip, Sayville, Bay- port, Patchogue, Moriches, West Hampton, Hampton Bays, Southamp- ton and Easthampton to Amagansett 1s hard-surfaced road in excellent con- dition. A great many motorists lke to go out to Montauk Point, the ex- treme end of Long Island, especially now that the Government Military Camp 1s located there. Connections ‘are made with Sag Harbor and Shel- ter Island by going north from Bridgehampton to Sag Harbor or from Easthampton to Sag Harbor, where a long causeway {s crossed to North Haven, then a fegry taken to Shelter Island, ‘There 1s also a ferry from Shelter Island to Greenport via Man- hasset. r roads run from the trunk lines to points all along Great and Little Peconic Bays. If one is in a hurry to get down to the east end of Long Island the preferable way {s to continue straight out Hillside Avenue to the Rocky Hill Road, where a right turn Is made at the greenhouses and the Jericho Turnpike followed through Mineola, Jericho, Woodbury, Commack, Smith- town and Smithtown Branch to Coram, From Coram due east the road runs through Middle Island and Ridgeville to Riverhead and is a country dirt road honed up after rains and generally kept in fair con- dition 1, 1922 (New York Evening World) Conreig piecns Publishing. Company Long Island 1s honeycombed with good condition on both the North and good condition on both the north and South Shores, with one or two ex- ceptions where short detours necessary. In fact, one can motor to Montauk Point in one day. All of the prominent cross connections from the South to the North Shore are also in good condition, The only construc- tion work now going on, where short detours are made necessary, 1s one on the Merrick Ropd between Jamaica and Springfield on the South Shore and between Port Jefferson and Riv- erhead on the North Shore, The International Polo Games to be held at Meadowbrook commencing Sept. 27 will draw thousands of mo- torists to the island. The Meadow- brook Club {s located just beyond Garden City adjoining the Mitchel Flying Field and can be reached from the Jericho Turnpike by going south through Westbury or from the Old Country Road which starts at Mineola, From New York, the best way 1s to just beyond Peace Monument on Hillside Avenue, Jamaica, turn right on Queens Road, run to Queens, there turn left and take right fork into the Beth Paige Turnpike. The Rockaways and Long Beach are prominent resorts on the South Shore and can be reached by crossing the Queensboro Bridge, then running out\the Queens Boulevard to Hillside Avenue, where a left turn ts made and about a half mile beyond there is a right turn at the Peace Monu- ment and the Merrick Road ts followed to Valley Stream, Lynbrook or the Rockaways. For Long Beach con- tinue to Rockville Centre, then run south through Christian Hook to are FIFTH INSTALMENT. In Which Banker Harding Thanks Without Injury or Danger of Jail. 66 UST made It!" gasped the J “Good boy, George! Let her out for all she has. Don't give them a chance to rip our Bang-bang! Both barrels of the shotgun this time. Harding wasn’t sure whether !t was shot or tce that Three minutes later he sat up and Glanced behind. He saw nothing but black trees and white fields rushing point in the road. The enemy was nowhere tn sight, For the first time since leaving the club Harding was “You're not hurt, Mr. Harding?" Harding closed his lips firmly, as firmly as his heaving lungs would to this young man. “I shot over their heads, and no doubt they shot over ours—at first.” His Stars That He Has Escaped unknown, bending his head. tires."* trummed against the mud guards, and converging toward the vanishing conscious of a comfortable warmth permit. He had nothing more to say The unknown watted for a moment; Long Beach. If hard surface 1s preferable, turn|then, being convinced that Harding HOW THE CONGESTION CAN BE|“#ht at Coram and run south to| was declining the invitation to con- AVOIDED. Patchogue, then east over the south] verse, he climbed into the forward 3 shore road. The quickest way to get| seat and took the wheel a On Saturdays, Sundays and holi- \ down the Island is to turn left the chauffeur, who, thus relieved, days the above route is terribly con-| Rocky Hill Road and again turn right] sank at once out of sight into the gested, The congestion can be avold-| into the Motor Parkway at Hillside] footroom below, out of the bite of the ed by going straight out Hillside Ave- nue, passing the Peace Monument to the Queens Road, where a right turn is made running due south to the Village of Queens, then east on the Hempstead Turnpike to Hempstead, Avenue Lodge, where there are no motor police, no speed limits, and by paying $1.50 {t can be traversed to Lake Ronkonkomo and the route con- tinued either north to St. James on winter wind, The unknown reached down with a free hand, evidently to pat the other's shoulder, It occurred to Harding that no one ever patted him on the shoulder, Prestige. Pre: tige forswears the camaraderie of Non-Nasal Worcester Yankee Kept Out of “Don’t Step on Gas’ Club Didn’t Talk Through His Nose, but Knew His Town, and Judge Wouldn’t Initiate Him. A thorough knowledge of the Worcester, Mass,, saved Harry Brune rouble yesterday. trate Marsh, ‘Traffic Court George was nominated by a pol man who saw is conducting the him driving along a street set aside fora playground, He fold the Magistrate that as he had gust come to the big city from his home in Worcester he was unfamiliar with our metropolitan processes Magistrate Cobb, however, could not etect a Yankee accent in the defend apts conversation, and started Groves -exuminalion ig "We'll have a little te on Wo Per,” be announced ow, Where i @he Union Station?” *At Washington Square, tie foot of Regront Strect. #And where is the Bancroft Hotel?” SeePark and Franklin streets,” 1% | Pied George promptly Pye "Where is the Court Hous “ourt “Ww Mow Hill, Lincoln bove the Cou near nscribed He appeared before Magistrate who were ind mud streamed on each side, If 25 elected yesterday were: ected :vestarday were! there was an abrupt rise in the road H COMMITTED IN DEFAULT OF |the wheels never touched the tin- ome anit mediate declivity, Bixty. miles an George Rubin, No. 1214 Second avenue,{2OUr! Harding slid this way and ve days. aks: = ‘iii that, hanging desperately to such sup- Prominent and historial features of] , Willlo McRae, No, 6 Hast 1924 Street, tive} ports as he could put his numb hands M of No. 818 East 100th Street, lots of]. liyman Besen, No. 909 East 120th street, [°0" Any Moment might see the three : tive dave of them dead and mangled in the Cobb, who, with Mags-[ Trving Ruskin, No. 1419 Btebbins Avenue, | ditch, “Don't Give Her the Gas Club” daily at] SON HOLeIea ca day It was two o'clock in the morning S NO. 186 Bast Mid Strect, tive] when the car tore into upper Broad. Se Aaya > . way. ently the specd slackened dee PMT, Mo. 378 BUttolk Bireet, cast ins” wowed down to twenty miles; nqutred Magistrate Cobb finally. Michael Cochetta, No. 2489 Arthur Av Harding could not move a muscle in “It's a go and I'm going to LR a <a | #7 remember it in Jail; ‘sentenced. : ub or house, Mr. Harding?"? “Case dismissed. Your knowled “Club."? It was the first word w 05, ord Hard- of Worcester hus saved you” said] FINED $ ing had spoken since leaving the de- His Honor, with a emi ang ite Dag var bya serted house beyond Tarrytown, Tt Louis Dietch, No, Vi7 Grand ¢ was also the last the unknown heard Myers was most notable] David Bchwarts, No, 1417 Webster Avenue. [from him that night among the 280 candidates for election. When the car stopped before the amaue the 20 candidates for eleetion. |sae any WEEK" IN JERSEY. |oiub the front wos sure, “tus ane err more, Ab ecened, was Aariving o not one of those organizations where © wrong side of Canal Strect when REDUCES THE PRICES [ire iayea cards all nicht At one Henry bumped into the unsuspecting | gousewives Profit by It and Lay |'he door was locked, and those mem- Joseph Peritz, of No, 1758 Second in Larwe Supplies, pare pe DAs crete te remain. were Avenue, Officer Heller of Clinton] ‘his is “Ham Week” in Hudson|ycary a room and bathe gp neeged reet Station n bumped Barrys] aounty, N. arly a room and bath. It was the more into court. His license was ; one place in town where hg could find Prices are declared to be lower than} the absolute seclusion his spent ene suspended for sixty days, and he will] | st wien sometimes demanded, sumo t. spend the next two Weeks as @ guest | Any other time during the reuson, Hea sometiny anded. Sumy be oe ha alin initiie workhouse Decision for a ‘Ham Week" was] 'likhted sane: ugreed upon following a meeting of} ‘~ ealled out the unknown : over the shoulder of the chautter Max Loewenstein, No, 661 Madison | members of the Meat Council of Hud- A i T : eur, on County, representing the majority] W20 nad resumed the passenger seat Avenue, was held without bail for ex. |e County, representing [he majority! “instinctively Harding held ont his umipation, He to be an old | county nds to catch the object hurtling i ; ian tt Inland housewives “hava| toward Hin Goo Iaie jie realient tra{fie offender atic nd was charged Hee thin ot Nt taken advantage of the low prices on! What this object was with driving atte iven hans, and thors heen reported The ur Vicon 1 1 m : the north shore or south to Sayville - —| good fellowship. Ue did not go far 886 East 24th Street, charged with {OM this track of retrospection; he driving while intoxicated, waived ex- | W&sn't Permitted to arnloetion ang tea haiain tage wea |_Jf the chautour was s reckioes driver ‘his comrade was relatively a mad one. The car leaped under his touch. ‘Two fountains of fce, water for the higher court initiates Among the t —— ‘The Mi Author Of Mac Grath. Inustrated By JOHN HARDING, tied down to business all his life, is just ready to dred-dollar note retire and go in for lighter things, when a letter from his wife tells ) "4 him his daughter, Wi11.B. Ionnstone. BETTY, has fallen in love. The letter doesn’t say with whom. Hard- ing plans a deal to control a bank and wonders where five hundred missing shares may be. MA1LHEWSON, his secretary, doesn’t know anything except that the shares once belonged to old Nicholson, former rival of Harding, who left his estate to a grandson of whom Harding has heard nothing for thirty years, who introduces himself as dition to b done for the stranger. a silent but competent chauffeur. and a mask, and upon doing so is 3EORGE, the chauffeur, watches G of stock. The car started off, Harding watched it balefully until it tummed back into Broadway. Then he stuffed the bank stock into th voluminous pocket of his overcoat and climbed the club st The scoundrel had recovered atock during that momentary Clever; confoundedly th darkness. clever] No this young man never overlooked de tails. Harding rang the dell tmpatiently clerk: opened the door sleepi! \lenly he heeame wide awake, his eyer eutemng ty sell out upom bis At his club, Harding is accosted by a stranger MR. SMITH, who compels Harding to listen to him for five minutes and incidentally to pay for his supper. The stranger persuades the banker to accompany him on an expe- row, not to steal, something for Harding's benefit, and assures the banker he does this because of a favor the banker has Harding joins Mr. Smith in a ride in a muddy racing car, driven by He rebels whea handed a revolver set down on the road to reflect. while Smith and Harding enter a lonely country house and take from the safe the five hundred shares “‘CATCH!' CALLED OUT THE UNKNOWN OVER THE SHOULDER OF THE CHAUFFEUR, WHO HAD RESUMED THE PASSENGER SEAT.” ks. T temporary paralysis gave Harding the opportunity to push inside Stop where you a thundered the “Llenry, what the dickens ts the r with you? Don't you recog- ie? I'm Harding."” Md heay Harding tore the nask fr ace. “You recognize now Y-yes, srt’? stammered the clerk "You've been here something Ike twe Tlenr Harding took Ml lua wallet and extracted # bun lhonaire Bur IY sl arOld- “The Voice IN The Fog/*tThe Ra rolar gged Edgeete. “Accept this. stand what it's for?’’ sir! Shali I wake up the You valet? “By no means!" Harding passed on Into the reading room and threw a log Into the fire- place. He stood before the flames until he smelt scorching wood. Then he wandered aimlessly toward his chatr. sHe felt numb, physically and men- tally. .ll this in a few hours! On the floor before the chair lay his maga- zire just where he had dropped It. He began to kick the magazine toward the flreplace with the Idea of watch- ing the flames consume {t; but on second thought he decided thafit was John Warding that merited the kick- ing. So he picked up the magazine and proceeded to his réom on the next floor. There was a mirror in the bathroom v, and he stood before this in sober emplation. Among other things he took p le in the fact that there wasn't better-dressed man tn New York. A fine picture he presented at this pre- cise moment. He was covered with coal dust and mortar dust and dusty cob- webs, That part of his face that had heen protected by the mask was dead w the lower half, his neck and collar, were streaked with black finger prints, Some of the buttons were gone from his buff spats; and his cont was minus a button, torn off probably dur- ing t fgnoble scramble over the stone wall. Well, he was alive, any- how. With an angry gesture he began to fling off his clothes. He did not care where they fell. Next he started the hot water in the tub, and later as he dropped into it he ized that his shins were barked, his hands scratched and puffed, that he was fift}-five to the dot—and bone tired, The Machiavellian cunning of th: infernal young scoundrel! ‘Cate And John Harding had caught. was deep tn the pit had shrewdly avoided. this was ultimately blackmail he was in for it; there wasn't a single loophole that he could see. He could return the stock, divided, to its ostensible own- , the lawyers. But what proof had he that they weren’t in partnership somewhere with this fellow who called himself “Mr, Smith?’ He was un- ler deep obligation to John Harding; indeed! Bah! All at once he chuckled. One thing was patent. He had Hammersley and his crowd of buccaneers in the hollow of his hand, And what was the price of a little blackmail compared to this marvelously satisfying fact? vi. Nowadays people are no longer tn- terested in tales which begin with the hero's return to his home town and the bald statement that he 1s now vorth millions. ry want to know how and when and where m these millions, T if this were wied-tinanee yarn (whieh it isn't, only a love you would st, rightfully, upon being told all happened inthe directors’ ‘room election of offic the next reas it is only necessary at twelve-ten Harding, followed — by lis) private secretary Mathewson, left the bank its master and proceeded to the telegraph ofic He sent a long messa to Take- wood. Then he turned and buffeted Mathewson on the shoulder, ‘All over now, old top!"* He he believed he It ey story), that at the morning; w to state that Mathewson gasped. He exactly understand this fam how to accept it, as it was t of its kind. He waited, the sion on his thin face one of mingled interest, curiosity and bewtlderment ll, those<blocks never turned up," he ventured tentatively “No, they didn’t Ret 1 did not arity o1 > first expres- den ean nln “Where now, sir?” inquired the a secretary. “Lunch, then the office. I'm going to clear up odds and ends this after- noon. On January first I quit.* Wha “Yes, sir, T haven't been%a dutt- ful husband; Tye been remiss as @ futher. I'm going to devote the rest of my days to my family. No more big deals; I'm through. Of ‘course Vit tinker along with the things un- jer control, and probably shove the brunt over on your shoulders, But no more new enterprises. I've never been to Europe. I haven't taken « man’s vacation in twenty years."” But you can't seo Europe now, si “Well, I can go fishing; and by the time I get tired of that the war will be on the shelf. Say, do I look any- thing like Captain Kidd, Long John Silver and that crowd Why “Probably not, Never judge a man by his looks, Mathewson; ask him how he feely. They say ft takes a million bullets over in Europe to kilt a single man. Perhaps that accounta for my being alive and kick ng at thin moment. To-morrow I'll :ell you a stor bout pistols and masks and wild rides through the might. I make the hair stand up on the back of your neck, as they made it stand up on mine. And the joke of it!s, there's a second act, Here, don't kok at me like that! Come along and hive lunch with me,"* Shall T call up Doctor Neville and K him to join us?’ suggested the wry, who was genuimly dis- Pistols and masks and wild rides in the night! Never {© all the years he had served this master had he ever heard or witnessed anything like this, The strain of the past few months had been too much. There was an outrageous twinkle in Harding's eyes as he ansvered “Yes, call Lim up, and when you him on the wire tell him t» go to Hades! 1 never felt better fa all my life. And tf T have to pay thet smooth scoundrel through the nose, why, I'll Pay.” ‘Smooth scoundrel?" rspeated Ma- thewson, growing more aad more be- wildered. ‘Who is that?" “That young Cagliost who stote into the club last nightand hypno- tized me out of the paths of rectitude. I'll tell you all about it to-morrow, Come on, old top! Ve'll have English chops, German-ried mur- phys, Russian salad, Camembert cheese, Turkish coffee md Italian tutti-fruttl! That ought o appease every drop of neutrality in your eys- tem."” “Old top! Old top!"* Hathewson mumbled this over and ovr on the way to the restaurant. Fer eighteen years it had been ‘Mithewson,’* nothing else, not even an occasional “James? to relieve the monotony. And to-day it was “old tp!” Hard- ing was going to be ill; here wasn’s the least doubt of tt. The private secretar; recollected that day as one recollets a night- mare; a number of eveits that had neither explanation nor continuity And when, at the closeof day, he learned that Harding proosed dining out and that he might mt be home that night, he called up Detor Neville and described the hallucingions of the patient; and the physicla promised to reach the club before Herding could leave it. Promptly at 7 the nwly made banker turned Into the ally. All the way over from the club hi pulse had tingled with the hope thatthis night would be as exciting as last. The hatches were off now, andthe fire in the hold was roaring. Fifty-five years old! He ought to be ashamed of him- self, but he wasn't. Jt wa not hi word, his agreement to able by the conditions imposed, that led him alleyward; it was not the embar- rassing possession of the nystertous bank stock. He was betrg driven forward by a compelling need—to have his curlosity completely satisfied Besides, {t would be somethng tn the way of @ souvenir for his old age, for the time when his blood ran thicker than It ran at prerent. Yes, thera was the car gray and powerful as a battleship, seckless to- night, and purring like some great tiger cat. They were reilly expect= ing him An!" erted Mr. Smif, Jumping down from the seat besid: the chauf feur and opening the tmneau door. “I was right. “About what?" “You, You had to coms.™ ‘Is there any logical reasom why, you must lig me away up there again? You have done ne a favor— an odd one, but I am bound to admit it, What's your price to forget that I've played a fool?" “f am not in the blackmail busi- ness, Mr, Harding." Yor a space Harding did rot know what to say. Here was his pet theory blown to smithereens. The fellow was- n't after money? ‘*Was it Eammers- ley? Was {t because he was your enemy that you offered to help me?"’ “Hammersley? Don't know the gentleman. You are all wrong, Mr Harding. You really don't belleve I'm under obligation to you. By the way, did you look up the license number?"* —tronically, “1 certainly did He refused to talk pald him well not to A dealer's Herne. Doubtless you One of the de- tails you spoke to me about,’’ Harding spoke with an irony that matched the other's, All right Gee let her out when we strike the State road!"* The young man's laughter had a joyous quality that would have be infectious in ordinary times. Hard in fought and conquered the rebel lious chuckle that rose up in answer And he had almost offered this fellow a job in the office “) should imagi he said, ‘that you and Geor here were a reckless pafr when not carrying passengeve”’ “That little spurt last night? To get speed you don't run, you The unknown & ke off abruptly “You what? “Fly Make yourself confortable." To-night it wa the unknown who &@ defended his project behind the ha riers of silence, Harding asked @ dozen direct questions, but the other persistently declined to answer (Copyright by the Bell Byadicat (Continued Ted: » Ay