[The Rover Boys on Treasure Isle by Edward Stratemeyer]@TWC D-Link bookThe Rover Boys on Treasure Isle CHAPTER XIV 5/12
"I am sorry we took that false turn at the top of the hill." "Oh, we'll have to take the bitter with the sweet," answered the girl, lightly. "I shan't mind it if you don't, Dora." "Don't worry, Dick, I am not minding it a bit.
I am only glad we got rid of that intoxicated chauffeur.
He might have gotten us into far more trouble than this." Inside of an hour they found themselves on a good stone road and reached a signboard put up by the automobile association, telling the exact distance to Philadelphia.
This set them at ease mentally, and they started off at a speed of twenty miles an hour.
Tom wanted to "let her out," as he put it, but Nellie demurred and so he kept to the rear as before. "But some day I am going to have a machine of my own," said he, "and it is going to do some speeding, I can tell you that." "Yah, and der first dings you know, Dom, you vos ub a dree odder you sphlit a rock insides owid," warned Hans.
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