"Did they fetch the car back?"

"I saw it at the garage this morning. I do hope it cannot be
fixed. I mean," Maud hurried to say, "I hope she will not hamper
us with it on our tour. It is only fit for the junkman."

Daisy and Maud were walking toward the post office. It was the
morning after the adventure on the road, and the two girls had
heard from Ray Stuart something of the news they were now
discussing. The hold-up of Paul Hastings was to them not so
important as the fact that Cecilia Thayer had gone over to
Kimball's and actually asked Jack Kimball to take her out Woodbine
way to tow home the balky Turtle.

But, precisely as her friend had said, Clip was a schemer. In the
first place, she had no idea of detaining her companions on the
lonely road to "monkey with the machine," so soon after Paul's
hold-up. Next, she had no idea of leaving the car there at the
mercy of fate. Instead, she deliberately went over to Kimball's
after dinner, asked Jack to take her out Woodbine way, and
incidentally suggested that he take along a gun. Jack had two
good friends, each opposite the other in type. Bess Robinson was
very much admired by him; and Cecilia Thayer, she who always
played the tomboy to the extent of affording a good time for
others when she could actually disguise a serious reason in the
joke, she who affected the "strained" nurse costume for fun, when
it was a real necessity - Jack Kimball liked Cecilia Thayer. Her
rather limited means often forced her to make sport of
circumstances, but, in every case, Cecilia "won out." She was,