"I do wish some of the folks could have been there," she added, listlessly.
"Is that so ?" he demanded, remembering then that this girl was never to be trusted, even in moods seemingly honeyed.

He spurted the new roadster in rank defiance of Newbern's lately enacted ordinance regulating the speed of motor vehicles.
Yet the night must have brought him counsel, for he appeared the next afternoon--though without Patricia--to beseech further instruction from the competent brother.

He did this rather humbly for one of his station.
"I know my game must be pretty rotten," he said.

"Maybe you can show me one or two more little things." "I'll show you the same old things over again," said Wilbur, overjoyed at this friendly advance, and forthwith he did.
For a week they played the course together, not only to the betterment of Merle's technic, but to the promotion of a real friendliness between this Whipple and a mere Cowan.

They became as brothers again, seeming to have leaped the span of years during which they had been alien.