The night before last he went out there in a big grayroadster to search the house.
Directly to it the roadster went, its two glowing eyes giving it the appearance of some gigantic bug.
They were not far from the town now and they knew that the occupants of the gray roadster would not dare molest them, when once they had gained the populated districts.
Dimmed lights were turned on in the roadster and soon it started.
Apparently the roadster had vanished from the face of the earth.
When he had backed his roadster into the stable behind the bungalow that served the Endicotts for a garage, he went into the washroom and bathed his bruises and the cut above his right eye.
Ralph stepped on his accelerator and the low-hung roadster darted up the road as though shot out of a gun.
Nor was he more communicative when he chanced to meet Ralph Endicott getting out of his roadster in front of the Clinkerport Inn.
For twenty seconds theroadster dashed ahead with a thuttering roar of its exhaust.
The roadsterwheeled into the wake of the bigger car.
Linda loved her roadster as a cavalry general loves his horse.
Kitty Clavering, as he got into herroadster with her and Maurice.
Banks left his roadster and came over to the larger car.
This is Banks, the miner you was trying to talk into buying that little red car last week; roadster I think you said 'twas.
Without having any charges placed against him, Berg was held until the next morning, when McRae and a deputy took him out in a roadster to a lonely spot on the county road.
He contradicted McRae's testimony about Beverly Park by stating positively that the sheriff had gone out in a five passenger car, and not in a roadster as was claimed, and that they had both remained there during the entire affair.
When they are in perfect shape, we'll put them into one of our chummy roadster engines, and you take that roadster across the continent and back again to test them out.
They had a good laugh over it, and at the end Mr. McFarland said: "Just for that you may have the chummyroadster which you and Pant drove so far.
But the task was growing monotonous, and, besides, there was no opportunity to work on his chummy roadsterthat was to have been built up from salvage.
It would be a wonderful experience, but--but there's that chummy roadster I was salvaging and was to have at cost.
Meanwhile Betty was settling herself in the gay roadster and Jack was starting.
But when the roadster drew up before the Lee home, Jack courteously accompanied Betty to the front door, but said that he had changed his mind about coming in.
Doctor Hugh did not come home till nearly five o'clock and the four solemn young people on the front porch were getting decidedly fidgety before his roadster appeared at the curb and he jumped out and hurried up the walk.
We'll please Mother," he said simply, and after the service he packed the three girls into the little roadster and carried them off for a long cold ride that gave them famous appetites for Winnie's dinner.
A full roadsterwould have the handles a little higher relatively to the saddle, and would be provided with mud-guards, free-wheel and sometimes a gear-case and variable speed gear.
Wood rims are used on racing bicycles, but in England are not popular for roadster bicycles.
With a pencil and paper he was carefully setting down what slight repairs he would need to make, when a big, dark red roadster swung off the boulevard and came chuckling toward them down the rough trail.
He was looking for the dark-red roadster that had eaten up distance so greedily between Inglewood and the city, and he did not see it.
A crow could scarcely make less than fifty miles from York to Scargate, and the factor's trusty roadster had to make up his mind to seventy.
Unarmed, and even without his gallant roadster to support him, he had leaped into that Curtian lake, and had fought a good fight at the bottom of it.
His roadster was in a repair shop, and as he stopped in to get it he overheard a conversation that told him all he wanted to know.
A glance aloft showed him the road far above him, from which he, the horse and the roadster had catapulted; and with the sight of it there flashed to his mind the fair face of the young girl in whose service the thing had happened.
Like a frightened deer the grayroadster sprang forward in pursuit.
I am glad that I am not the mad king of Lutha," he said as he paid the storekeeper for the gasoline he had just purchased and stepped into the grayroadster for whose greedy maw it was destined.
The front wheel of the roadster was at the horse's right flank.
The gray roadster swerved toward the embankment as the hind wheels skidded on the loose surface gravel.
There was a sickening lurch as the hind wheels slid over the embankment, and then the man shoved the girl from the running board to the road, and horse, man and roadster went over into the ravine.
Unless I am truly mad, I was the only occupant of the roadster when it plunged over the embankment.
Just as the roadster jumped away on the back stretch the cattle began pouring around the foot of the hill.
The red roadster was not only leaving the frightened herd behind, but was coming up with the cowboy, hand over fist.
The red roadster whipped and slewed around the curves, and leaped like lightning across the straight-away stretches.
What I want to see you about, Matt, is an altogether different matter, although the roadster is indirectly concerned.
As the red roadster came closer, Matt stared at the man keenly, and a muttered exclamation escaped his lips.
Matt returned the red roadster to McKibben's barn, where it was being kept, cleaned it up a little and made sure that everything was all right, then locked the barn door and left the key with Mrs. McKibben.
McKibben and Motor Matt were the best of friends, and McKibben had told Matt to take the red roadster out for "exercise" whenever he felt like it.
When you open that red roadster up she can go about ten feet to a steer's one.
Planted in the middle of the road, he was staring back, wondering, no doubt, why the horseman was tearing along at such a rate of speed, and why the red roadster was letting itself out on the back track.
They had been on the low gear; that put them on the high with a jump, and the red roadster flung madly ahead.
Under McKibben's direction Matt brought the roadster to a stop close to the place where Fresnay's saddle had turned while he was trying to pick up Welcome during the stampede.
The machine took the spark without cranking and the red roadster started off.
Welcome Perkins was forced to testify that Clip was in the roadster when Fresnay said he was going after the pay-roll, and was questioned about the half-breed who had stopped the cowboy's horse.
My tramp informant was an old roadster of about forty, who had "held down" the railroad in question for a number of years.
I have known a roadster to beg a New Testament from a Bible House agency in order to settle a dispute about religious doctrine, but this is a very exceptional case.
Ma's gone and got that roadster for two--it is a Packard the same as our other car, but now she wants to tour around, and she thinks she will bring Jimmy over to Paris for a little jaunt.
Consequently the newroadster struck the rock with enough force to crush in the radiator and headlights.
The roadster was now repaired and ready to be used, so the bill was paid and Mrs. Alexander got in.
Mrs. Alexander, eagerly examining her roadsterto see if it was in good condition for the continuation of the tour.
The day was far spent when the roadster was in a shape to continue the tour, and Turin was many a mile away.
So Dodo subsided for the time, while her mother continued: "So there will be ample room for you to tour in my large car, ladies, while Dodo and I use the roadster and follow you.
The moment the car was halted close in to the bank, Mr. Alexander jumped out and ran to help Mr. Fabian push and pull the damagedroadster under the cliff, also.
I saw just the kind of roadster I want," said she, "but I guess I won't buy it until we get back from the tour.
No trouble whatever, my dear boy, as I propose looking at a new roadster for myself, at the same time," said the lady.
Besides, his calls at the Court were usually made in the same way; his custom being to ride as far as the Wingate cottage, leave his roadster there, and thence take the skiff.
But on this particular day he has left his roadster in its stable, and gone down to Llangorren afoot, knowing there would be the skiff to take him back.
Her brother Val watched the gas gage on the instrument board of the roadster fluctuate wildly as the attendant of the station shook the hose to speed the flow of the last few drops.
Val locked the roadster and took from Ricky the long legal-looking envelope which Rupert had given them to deliver to Mr. LeFleur.
But Ricky did trap him before he got the roadster out and made him promise to bring home two pounds of salted nuts and some more ice, because she simply knew that they wouldn't have enough.
The shoulders are sloping and long and give the roadster ability to reach well out in his stride.
We went into Scotland without any prejudice; but we had scarcely been in Edinburgh three hours when an English roadster tried to make me believe terrible things of the "Scotties," as he called the Scotch tramps.
One of these men was a notorious roadster of American birth, who, for purposes best known to himself, went by the name of "Liverpool George.
This woman was the only feminine roadster I met during the journey, and I think she is one of the very few.
The ex-prushun is exactly the opposite, and I know of no roadster so cruel and mean to the weak as this young fellow, who is, after all, only a graduated kid.
A Southern roadster tried to get him free of cost, and the tales he told him, and the way he told them, would have done honor to a professional story-teller.
I think he had been a roadster sometime in his life, for he entered into the schemes and plans as earnestly as the law allows.
In Utica I made the acquaintance of a roadster called "Utica Biddy.
I do not know of a town or village in the Keystone State where a decently clad roadster cannot get all that he cares to eat without doing a stroke of work in payment.
I scarcely know which I noticed first, the spick-and-span cloverleaf roadster sparkling in its coat of Nile-green enamel, or the girl who seemed to step directly in its path as it went humming along the smooth and polished asphalt.
Bill again circled the car and wrote: “Brown roadster on mountain road running southeast from Adler.
He caught a glimpse of the brown roadster turning off the road into what seemed to be a deserted homestead.
One of them stayed by the roadster while the others began a search of the buildings.
That meant that Roger Verbeck had some deep thinking to do, for, when he had not, he drove the big roadster himself.
The chief got into the roadster with him; the sheriff had a car of his own, driven by a deputy.
Verbeck parked the roadster several blocks away from the National Trust Company.
Verbeck's big roadsterwas at the curb, and Muggs was at the wheel.
And wherever that roadster is found, some of the Black Star's men may be in the neighborhood.
Verbeck's roadster is at the resort down the river, and has been there for several hours.
On seeing Landers get out, he parked the roadster and followed his man.
They saw Muggs drive through the crowd, and Roger Verbeck spring into the roadster and start for the First National Bank.
Verbeck had hoped that the discovery of his roadster would put the police and himself on the right trail.
He got out of the cab half a block away from the hotel entrance, and looked around for the roadster and Muggs, but failed to find them.
He was up soon after break of day, had his bath and breakfast, and went down to get his roadster from the garage, feeling particularly fit.
Roger Verbeck and Muggs drove about in the big roadster continually, watching people, trying to catch a glimpse of some known member of the Black Star's old organization.
