"Ven I ride so fast like dot I valk, I pet you!" It was dark long before the city was reached and they had to stop to light the lamps, and they also had to fix the batteries of the second car.

Fred, who was getting hungry, suggested they stop somewhere for something to eat, but the girls demurred.
"Wait until the ride is ended," said Dora.

"Then we can take our time over supper." As night came on they saw fireworks displayed here and there and enjoyed the sights greatly.
"I've got some fireworks on the yacht," said Tom.

"I reckon I'll be rather late setting them off." While they were yet three miles from the river they stopped at a drug store and there Dick telephoned to the owner of the machines, explaining matters, and asking the man to send down to the dock for the cars.
"He's pretty angry," said Dick, as he leaped into the automobile again.

"He says we had no right to run off with the cars." "Well, he had no right to send us off with those awful chauffeurs," answered Dora.
"Oh, I'm not afraid of anything he'll do," answered Dick.
Nevertheless, he was a bit anxious as he reached the dock, and he lost no time in sending the girls to the yacht with Songbird, and he asked his chum to send Mr.Rover ashore.
A minute later a light runabout spun up and a tall, thin man, with a sour face, leaped out and strode up to the two machines.
"Who hired these machines, I want to know ?" he demanded.