Part 3 (2/2)
”It's the sa the same way I am Well, I'll not try to catch up to hi all this while, that he hasn't gotten any farther than this? Either he's been riding back and forth, or else he's been resting My, but he certainly is scooting along!”
The wind carried to Tom the sound of the explosions of the htly to the handle-bars The rider was almost in front of Tom's house nohen, with a suddenness that caused the lad to utter an exclaht toward a big oak tree
”What's he up to?” cried To an exhibition by showing how close he can come and not hit it?”
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Theover the handle-bars, theover on one side the motor raced furiously The rider lay in a heap at the foot of the tree
”My, that was a s forward, he raced toward the scene of the accident
CHAPTER IV
TOM AND A MOTOR-CYCLE
When Torass at the foot of the old oak tree, the youth bent quickly over thefro, though not very strongly
”Well, he's not dead--just yet!” exclaiuess he's pretty badly hurt I et help--no, I'll take hi his wheel against the tree Tom started for his home, about three hundred feet away, and then he noticed that the stranger's round
”Guess I'd better shut off the power!” he exclai the machine be ruined” Tom had a natural love for machinery, and it hurt him almost as much to see a piece of fine apparatus abused as it did to see an aniasolene and spark, and then the youth raced on toward his house
”Where's dad?” he called to Mrs Baggert, ashi+ng the dishes
”Out in one of the shops,” replied the housekeeper ”Why, Tom,” she went on hurriedly as she sa excited he was, ”whatever has happened?”
”Man hurt--out in front--et sos ready--I'll find dad!”
”Bless and save us!” cried Mrs Baggert ”Whatever are we co to?
Who's hurt? How did it happen? Is he dead?”
”Haven't ti fro him in here”
Tom found his father in one of the three srounds about the Swift home The youth hurriedly told what had happened
”Of course we'll bring hi aside the work upon which he was engaged ”Did you tell Mrs
Baggert?”
”Yes, and she's all excited”
”Well, she can't help it, being a woe Do you know the man?”