"The line only runs the other way." The route was now over a dense woods and the boys had to sail slowly, for fear of passing the automobile while the latter was running under the overhanging trees.

Once they saw something that looked like an automobile and Dick had to sail in a circle and come back, to make sure.
But it proved to be only a two-seated carriage; and they passed on.
Shepleytown proved to be quite a place, with a main street containing a dozen stores.

It connected by stage with Chaplet, which was a railroad center, five miles away.
The coming of the boys created as much of a sensation as had their arrival at Beechwood, and once more the biplane was surrounded.
"Sure, I saw that 'mobile you are after," said one man, in answer to their questions.

"It was running putty lively an' no mistake.

It went past the mill an' took the old Snagtown road.