From the Car Behind

From the Car Behind

COPYRIGHT, 1911, BY J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY COPYRIGHT, 1912, BY J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY PUBLISHED, FEBRUARY, 1912 PUBLISHED, FEBRUARY 15, 1912 SECOND PRINTING FEBRUARY 20, 1912 PRINTED BY J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY AT THE WASHINGTON SQUARE PRESS PHILADELPHIA, U.S.A. "Sure," assented the mechanician. "But he'll be the last rose of summer, all right, when the race comes off. He'll not last twenty-four hoursa kid amateur. If you ain't coming over, I'll lead myself back to my job." He moved over to one of the grand-stand seats, as he spoke, and sat down, leaning on the rail with an easy movement of his supple figure. That was the first characteristic strangers usually noted in him: an exquisite Hellenic grace of strength and faultless proportion. He was a man's beauty, as distinguished from a beauty-man; other men were given to admiring him extravagantly and unresentfully. Unresentfully, because of his utter practicality and matter-of-fact atmosphere. The afternoon sunshine glittered goldenly across the huge, green field and the mile track circling it, where four racing cars sped in practice contest. Two of them were painted gray, one was dingy-white; the fourth shone in delicate pink enamel touched here and there with silver-gilt. Its driver and mechanician were clad in pink also, adding the completing stroke to an effect suggesting the circus rather than the race track. There was much excuse for the laughter of the camps, and that reflection of it lying in Gerard's eyes. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

Product details

Ebook Number: 27337
Author: Ingram, Eleanor M. (Eleanor Marie)
Release Date: Nov 27, 2008
Format: eBook
Language: English

Contributors

Illustrator: Flagg, James Montgomery, 1877-1960