"Across the room."
He said we were not as agreable as we might be, so he
picked up a magazine and looked at the Automobile advertizments.
"I can't aford a car," he said. "Don't listen to me, either
of you. I'm only talking to myself. But I like to read the ads.
Hello, here's a snappy one for five hundred and fifty. Let me
see. If I gave up a couple of Clubs, and smokeing, and flours to
_Debutantes_--except Barbara, because I intend to buy every pozy
in town when she comes out--I might----"
"Carter," I said, "will you let me see that ad?"
Now the reason I had asked for it was this: in the book the
Girl Detective had a small but powerful car, and she could do
anything with it, even going up the Court House steps once in it
and interupting a trial at the criticle moment.
But I did not, at that time, expect to more than wish for
such a vehical. How pleasant, my heart said, to have a car
holding to, and since there was to be no bathing, et cetera, and
I was not allowed a horse in the country, except my old pony and
the basket faeton, to ramble through the lanes with a choice
Spirit, and talk about ourselves mostly, with a sprinkling of
other subjects!
Five hundred and fifty from nine hundred and forty-five
leaves three hundred and forty-five.
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