The car compassed the loop and started on the return trip.

"Where do we get off?" asked Monte.

"I'm not getting off anywhere until after you do."

"I've got lots of nickels."

"I've got lots of time!" returned Nance, regardless of her former haste.

At Cathedral Square, Monte rang the bell.

"Have it your own way," he said good-naturedly. "But do send a
message to Mac."

Nance let him get off the back platform; then she put her head out of
the window.

"You tell him," she called, "that he can't kill two birds with one
stone!"




CHAPTER XXIV

BACK AT CLARKE'S


The promotion of Uncle Jed from the bed to a pair of crutches brought