"A little rattled at first?"

"Yes----"

"Well, we can't let her out on this road. It's too
narrow--have to take a ditch sometimes to pass. That
wouldn't do for an eighty-mile clip, you know--now
would it?"

"Hardly."

"I might risk it alone--but my first name's `Old
Man Caution' today--you get me?"

Mary nodded and turned her head away again.

"I got you the first time, sir," she answered
playfully taking his tone.

He ran the car into the garage at the Beach, sprang
out and lifted Mary to the ground with quick, firm
hand. They threw off their heavy coats and left them.

"Look out for this junk now, sonny," he cried to
the attendant, tossing him a half dollar.

"Sure, Mike!"

"Fill her up to the chin by the time we get