I could have stopped him." "Stopped him?
How could you, if he were driving very fast ?" "Oh, it's easy enough to stop a car," said Helen.

"One of the girls at school showed me." Leaning over, she ran her free hand under the instrument board.
"Feel these wires back of the switch," she said.

"All you have to do is to reach under quick and pull one loose--just a little tug like this--and you can stop the wildest man, and the wildest car on earth....

See ?" In the excitement of her demonstration she tugged the wire too hard.

It came loose in her hand and the engine stopped as though by magic.
"It's a good thing we are up to the house," she laughed.