I must get
one and have it with me when I drive, in case of emergencies like this
one."
A whimsical expression touching his lips, he gazed off over the
landscape as he spoke, and she glanced at his profile. She was obliged
to admit to herself that she had seldom noted one of better lines.
Curiously enough, to her observation there did not lack a suggestion of
ruggedness about his face, in spite of the soft and easy life she
understood him to have led.
Ted and Ruth now came panting up to them, and the four climbed together
to the hilltop.
Roberta turned and scanned the sun. Immediately she decreed that it was
time to be off, reminding her protesting young brother that the November
dusk falls early and that it would be dark before they were at home.
Richard put both sisters into their saddles with the ease of an old
horseman. "I've often regretted selling a certain black beauty named
Desperado," he remarked as he did so, "but never more than at this
minute. My motor there strikes me as disgustingly overadequate to-day. I
can't keep you company by any speed adjustment in my control, and if I
could your steeds wouldn't stand it.
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