"No," he cried the next moment, "I don't want to waste it--but when I opened the valve a stream of gasoline came out.

There's plenty of it.

That stoppage is in the carburetor.

Oh, what a bunch of idiots we've been!" "Better sound the tank," suggested Merritt; "what came out of the valve might just be an accumulation in the pipe." "Not much," rejoined the other, "it came out with too much force for that, I tell you.

It was flowing from the tank, all right." "We'll soon find out," proclaimed Merritt.