The car trembled, the machinery began to whir--then came a tremendous buzzing roar, a violent shaking of the car, followed by sharp explosions, and silence.
"You stripped the gears!" shouted Anderson, with the red fading out of his face.
"No; but something's wrong," replied Nash.

He got out to examine the engine.
Anderson manifestly controlled strong feeling.

Lenore saw Jake's hand go to her father's shoulder.

"Boss," he whispered, "we can't ketch thet car now." Anderson resigned himself, averted his face so that he could not see Nash, who was tinkering with the engine.

Lenore believed then that Nash had deliberately stalled the engine or disordered something, so as to permit the escape of the strange car ahead.