Part 3 (2/2)

She took a firloves were starting from the strain There was a desperate look on her face

”Oh, we'll be killed! We'll be killed!” screaet across in time!”

She leaned over, and fell into her sister's arlance to either side, stiffened in her seat There was a bare chance of safety

CHAPTER III

A SUDDEN ACQUAINTANCE

Despite the tense moment of anxiety, the almost certainty that the auto would crash into the train, Cora's quick eye had seen so that she hoped would enable her to avert the accident

She knew that she could not stop the machine in ti to do That was to steer to one side

To the left there was a solid stone wall To dash into that would mean almost as horrible an accident as if she collided with the train To the right there was a field, but it was fenced in, and between it and the road was a little miry, brook

In some places the brook widened almost into a pond The bottom was treacherous, and to steer into it meant to sink down deeply into the ht led in theit all to pieces Or one of the long pieces of wood ht even impale the occupants of the car

Cora's eyes swept down the length of the barrier with a flash

There was just what she wanted! A gap in the fence!

She could go through that in safety But suppose the ht to too sudden a stop in the mud? They would all be thrown out and perhaps injured But it was the only thing to do

With a firrasp of the wheel Cora sent the auto fro of the car She had to hold her sister fro care of herself

Straight for the field rushed the car, the engineer of the train now tooting his whistle as if in gladness at the narrow escape

Splash!+

The auto fairly dived into the brook, and gradually slackened speed

Right toward a clu a spray of water in advance Then it became stationary in the middle of a spot where the brook widened into a pond

Cora was diure on the opposite bank of the strea-pole in his hands

She saw a spray of water, cast up by the auto, drench hiave hi centered on her narrow escape, the condition of her two chums, and, last, but not least, whether her new auto had been daed

Cora leaned over the side and looked at the water flowing past the ht ere dooirls Didn't you?”

”Dooh that experience again”