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r i \ THE RACE OF CAR "NUMBER NINETEEN" A STOItY IN TWO PARTS. 1 / Part II. As No. 18 rolled up to the tape the grand stand burst Into cheering and clapping of hand. No. 18 was easily the favorite. It was made by a famous firm, and had won several smaller races during the summer and had made a good showing in France in tkfi Gordon Bennett Cup Race. Its driver, Pearson, was skillful and ? reckless; and though lie habitually disregarded the rights of other drivers, this affected him little with the public, which sees only results and judges by them. As he bolted away, t)nm>unn riiuixnwlixl in t jl f> ii itnlil 11k(> with a jaunty wave of a gauntleted hand. Nineteen was next. The grand stand looked on listlessly; she was the nobody of the race. Jack cranked the engine, which started going with the din of a rapid-fire gun, and leai*?? in. Morgan pulled his goggles down over his eyes, and sat tensely waiting, while the starters, who' shared the grand stand's opinion of Nineteen, perfunctorialy , shouted the seconds into his ears: "Fifteen?ten?five ? four ? three ?" he turned his head and had a ( glimpse of a smiling figure leaning over a box railing?"two?one? go!" He let the clulth in slowly, and the. car moved easily away from the silent grand stand?silent save for one pair of clapping hands, tie shifted to the high gear, the car fairly sprang into sprinting speed, and flashed away down the oiled road? and the race that was to mean everj thing or nothing to 'Morgan was on. On the racer aped, the incarnation *of velocity. To drive this creature of steel and fire is the most dangerous thing man does in the name of ^feport.. Man's highest development of God's material is in it, but under so .. ninntn m fl ,1 ' U tiout m !1 V KI1 !) I) 1 ? ti'i I inu a on a i ii uiuia u uvuu w..Mr, The course is narrow and has its turns, and only the coolest nerve and ? the steadiest, quickest hand can hold '^tho creature to her path. A snap, or an instant's unsteadiness of hand? and the race may bo forever over for man and machine. And there may be a ragged hole in the bordering human wall where the machine tore e through. Morgan had the hand and the nerve; and this flying ton of steel was as obedient to his will as though it had been flesh and bone of his own body?which, indeed, it was. The wind roared about them; the roadside trees were a green smear; the two lines of people were not people, f butJtlwo black walls?and the throbbin x racer shot (hiward, onward like a millet aimed at the red eye of the / rising sun. I * To keep your machine in the road, and to keep it going at eighty ; an hour on the straightaways and at forty 011 the turns?that's the substance of driving a racer, baring mishaps. And that was the substance of Morgan's first round. He crep up to within half a mile of Eighteen and was holding that position ^vlien ho skimmed past the grand stand. The grand stand blur to him, but the corner of his eye caught the waving of a single ( handkerchief. "Thirty minutes!" Jack announced. "Great!" Morgan nodded, his eyes on the oiled roadway. A few miles on Fearson had a 1 J.. l,la wi.ii* f i t?r? ?i ii rl ?trm |)UIlClUlt" III I1IO 1V 11 til W, ,, ped in the very middle of the road to repair it. It was such .breaches of racing etiquette as this that made liim so cordially detested by other drivers. Morgan, tearing on behind, had to slow down and run almost off the course to get by. The slow-down cost him a quarter of a minute; and three-hundred mile races are sometimes won by little more. t. little further on, Morgan, him, had a rear tire pucture. He, stopped at the next tire station and had it replaced, and was starting it off again, after a loss of three minues, when Pearson came whizzing by. Morgan set out in grim pursuit and ' gradually closed the gap between them. When thirty yards behind, he sounded his horn for Pearson to give him half (he road, hut Pearson, despite the rule that a machine being overtaken must keep to the right, held the middle of the course. They ran so for a mile, then the way i broadened and Morgan Couched his 1 I ^ r. \M nnf r>r?n r?-.Ano 11 rl (>d like <n;i;nM tuwi. .? f a horse to a whip, darted forward, , swung around Eighteen and again took (he middle of the road. When they flashed by the grand stand r Eighteen as a milo behind. Iler third round was done in twenty-nine minutes. The grand stand began to be interested. The fourth round in the sapie?slight cheer came from the stand. The fifth round in the same?a louder cheer." The sixth round Nineteen came by in twenty-seven minutes,, leading the f next machine, Pearson's by more ! than half a lap. A roar went up I- from the grand stand, so great that it drowned to Morgan's ears the terrific artillery of his flying car, and the roar thundered along the parallel human w .Is through which he sped. Nineteen a ad become the favorite. On on the car sped, increasing her i lead every mile over _ Eighteen, .which still held second place. Near the end of the ninth round they saw Pearson less than than a mile ahead a lead of a lap on their nearest rival! "One more round !" Morgan cried exultantly. Jack hugged his left arm. When they turned into the straight stretch that passed the grand stand, Pearson was hut a hundred yards or two ahead, and a few lengths beyond i was No. 7, hopelessly out of the race from an hour's delay, but now running bravely. Pearson, a notorious player to the grand stand, saw here j a chance for a bit of the spectacular, i As he and No. 7 drew up to the stand he blew for passageway, and touched his acclerator. His car sprinted forward, but Pearson, always a reckless driver, cut the curve of passing too line; perhaps he had < expected more of the road. The hub of his right fore wheel smashed against the left rear wheel of No. 7. < There was an explosion and a crash. Eighteen skidded to one side from the impact, and rushed on, uniiarmed. But Seven, a wheel splintered, ; the end of an axle on the ground, was left lunging wildly about like a wounded beast. i Between this disaster and the next the crowd had time for only a gasp- i ing cry of horror. Morgan as gripped by the terror instant-away death. Ho jerked out the cluth and threw on the brakes. But there was no stopping this roaring thunderbolt in a hundred yards, and no steering around that crippled, flopping ma- < chine ahead. The two cars crashed. A figure shot over the bonnet of Nineteen, like a tumbler from his springboard, and roiled over and over in the road and lay very still. The two machines seemed to writhe i for an instant, as though in gigan- < tis enmity?ther engines bombarding i muzzle to muzzle. They were swung apart?No. 7 to become a wreck against the grand stand?No. 19 to go lurching forward upon one fore wheel and the end of an axle, grazing the prostrate body in the road. The grand stand breathed. They i had expected annihilation. But Morgan in the last thousandth of a second had swerved his machine so that i his left fore wneei nau met, ana 1101 with direct impact, a wheel of No. 7. The crowd saw that the two men in No. 7 were living, and saw that the man at the steering wheel of Nineteen still held his seat. Morgan, whose grip on the wheel and supreme bracing of the legs had < saved him from being a catapultic missle, leaped from the car and ran .back to where Jack lay. He knelt and jerked off Jack's goggles. The boy weakly opened his eyes. "All gone to smash?" he asked. "How are you?" Morgan cried. Jack began slowly to rise. Morgan waited for no more. He rushed to Nineteen, which officials were frantically pushing from the track, for the announcer's megaphone had sounded tho cry: "Car coming!" They lodged her against tho grand stand?beneath a box where sat a girl in a tan coat; and the instant the car stopped Morgan wriggled under it, and to tho crowd was only a V of legs. Jack limped dazedly up, and at the sight of the battered bonnet and radiator, the splintered hub that had been a fore wheel, the race that was lost, the boy leaned his elbows over his old seat and broke into sobs. Tin this he was not alone, for just above him a girl in a tan coat was sobbing, too. Morgan began 10 wriggle out, anu Jack, face streaming, caught his ankles and dragged him forth. He sprang up frantically, his grimy face likewise tear-streaked. "How is it?"Jack asked. "Seems solid?front axle bent a little." He pointed a quivering hand at the hub. "Get it off!?jack up the axle!" "Why?what for?" Jack asked blankly. 1 "Hang it! Get it off!" ho yelled. 1 And ho turned and sprinted in the dj- 1 rection of their garage?why, only his frenzy could have told, for the garage was four miles away. Hut the sight of one of the motorcycle patrolmen brought him to a stop. Without a word, he snatched the mo- < torcyclo from tlio owner's hands, and Rave a run and leaped astride it. Tt was a high-powered machine, with a i mile-a-minute reputation. Whatever its best was, it showed that best now. ' In a dozen seconds Morgan was a whizzing speck down the roadway, the tails of his yellow dustcoat whip- i ping the air. The crowd, oblivious of the cars racing past, stood on its j feet and watched him disappear, and i /-.rkiinfrwl t ll n minutes till he should come again. They guessed 1 what he was going to try to do. < Could he make It in time??and would the car run? ? Presently the speck reappeared far down the roadway?grew larger as it ? skimmed toward them?an I then i they saw a great hump on Morgan's I back?and then, as he dashed ;?p *o i the grand stand, they saw that the hump was a wheel, its tiro in.dated. 1 He sprang from the motorcycle, gu\e it a push toward its owner, and in- t stantlyl Jack was unstrapping the wheel from his back. The next in- i stant the two of them were fitting it ] to its place. But before the task was done the announcer's shout went up, "Car 1 coming!"?and two minutes later No. 18 tore by and began its tenth i round. More than another two minutes were gone ere the last thing was ^ finished. Then Morgan leaped to his i seat, and Jack .began to crank the ] engine. Would the engine run? the < grand stand dasked itself. The en- : gine answered with a mighty boom r ing. A hand fell on Morgan's shoulder ?a hand in a soiled glove. He looked up at a figure that leaned out over the box railing. "You're going to win!" said a choking voice. His face was tightened?that was all. Jack bounded to his seat Morgan let in the clutch. The car moved! A great cry of relief rose from the grand stand, and changed to a cheer as the car fairly sprang into a leaping speed. Theirs was a brave try? but could man born of woman, and machine made of man, overcome the three minutes' lead of Eighteen? Could they? If man and machine could, Morgan and 'Nineteen would. For the first minute he was full of fear that the spirit had been knocked out of her. But her cylinders fired with their old regularity; all her n.irtH rnn with their old ease. He called from her her best, and she save it?loyally. Faster, faster she went?swaying, lurching, pulsing giantly. Tho gale of her making swept over the bonnet and struck her riders' face like blows. And still she went faster, as though she had the inlinite speed of flying worlds. "Ninety miles an hour?if we're moving at all!" gasped Jack. Morgan did not answer. He did not hear. There were only two things in the world?that ribbon of oiled road which eyes dared not leave, this throbbing, whirling machine with its terrible, magnificent, unconquerable soul of fire. At the first turn Morgan called back her speed?but not enough. As she fiew about the curve she skidded off the course onto the grassy roadside?'twas a marvel her tire were not torn off, but they held ? and missed a telephone pole and destruction by a foot. Jack suddered, but Morgan never winced?held his statue-like stare on the ribbon of roadway. She swung back into the course, and her speed mounted and mounted to its height of a minute ago, and there seemed still more speed in her?and she flung the miles behind her like God's fastest wind. Could they make it? A hundred thousand people wanted them to? pressed on their flight with their hearts' best wishes. In the grand stand all eyes fixed at the beginning of the final stretch; cars thundered by all unnoted. The crowd sat with watch In hand, counting off the minutes since Nineteen had started? twenty?twenty-one ? twenty-two? twenty-three? "Car comnig!" shouted the annouocer. A tiny ,blot flashed into view. Eighteen or Nineteen? All eyes strained for the figures on the car's front as she came forward like a metetor. The number began to appear?the first figure was a one, the second eight or nine?eye could not tell which. The car dipped down a grade and was lost to sight. The heart of the crowd stood still. She flashed up into view again, and there was her number before all. Nineteen. The next instant she roared by? two tense, crouching figures in her lap?the very soul, the very body of Speed itself. And the grand stand, on its feet, roared back at her. And a little girl in a tan coat let her head fall forward upon her folded arms. It was the next morning. Mr. Peck, sitting at his old desk in the office of Peck & Morgan, pushed away a heap of open letters and took up again one of the half-dozen New York papers before him. There was but one thing in the papers, and that was the automobile race, and there was but one thing in the automobile race, and that was the wonderful running of Nineteen and the wonderful driving of Morgan. Mr. Peck clenched his jaws very tightly and scowled very heavily?hut his mouth twitched and his eyes blinked and he read every word in each paper. Shortly after eleven o'clock the office door opened and Morgan walked in, in automobile coat and begoggled cap, having just driven out from New York. He looked thin and pale, and his eyes were bloodshot from the strain of yesterday. lie stared at Mr. Peck and at the heap of open letters, then walked sharply forward. "Pardon me, sir, I should like to know what business you have to open my mail?" he demanded. Mr. Peck did not reply at once, and when he did speak did not answer the question. Without looking * * - 1 -U ...v? up ne jeraea a puugy uiuuiu mwuiu the heap of letters that lay on the desk. "Thirty-seven orders there," he said, gruffly. "They haven't had a chance to ?ome in ?there'll he a hundred tomorrow," Morgan could not refrain l>oin answering. "I have twenty with mo." His face grew sharp again. "What right, sir, have you in my mail?" ho asked. Mr. Peck again jerked his thumb oward the heap of orders. "Mr. Morgan, don't he so brash? pou need money to push them thru', [dow much d'you want?" "None." Mr. Peck looked up at the pale face of the young man. "None? None? What do you mean?" His jaw fell. "You know Mr. Tucker has been wanting to branch out into the automobile business," Morgan quietly explained. "He's offered ma two hundred thousand for what I bought of pou." Mr. Peck rose weakly up. 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You sell that stock ?and to that d d Tucker!?and you'll never say a word to liei again!" "That brings up another point,' Morgan said with the same quietness He turned to his own desk, threw il open and scribbled a note. He ther touched a button and handed the note to the answering boy, with the direction: "In the touring car out in front." Morgan wheeled about and looker steadily at Mr. Peck. Mr. Peck sank into his chair and glared back, and for a minute or more there was silence. Then the door opened. Mr. Peck looked around, and Morgan rose and took off his cap. There stood Miss Peck, in an automobile coat, her veil drawn above her face which was very fresh and very pink An impartial judge would have declared that she was very pretty. "Why, hello!" Mr. Peck exclaimed "I thought you were in New York with your aunt." "I just came back. I?I wanted to see you," she said, growing a little pinker, and if possible, a little prettier. "Can't talk to you now; I'm busy You'll have to wait outside." "Don't go, please," Morgan said quickly. "Your father has surmised pardon me for repeating it, that I?1 am attracted toward you. And he has said that unless I let him ha*c ba< k his stock, you'll have nevei a \void to say to me." "An . mean it!" Mr. Pe-e's ?ace purpled and his list, slammed upon his desk. "What I tell her to do, my daughter does. T ordered her three months ago to have nothing to dc with you?and lias sue, eh? 1 guess It'll be the same in the l'u ture. You remember that!'' "Does the inverse of your threai hold good?" Morgan queried. "If I let you have back the stock, then you'll have 110 objection " 'Mr. Peck dismissed the point with a wave of his hand. "Then I step out. JIt' 11 be between you two." Morgan looked at Miss Peck. She met liis glance with a blush. He turned back to her father. "You'll put lip cash?" j "Yes. Nm?how much?" "Two hundred thousand." "One hundred and fifty." "Two hundred thousand is Tucker's offer. I can't take less." Mr. Peck stared at the set face, "All right," he growled. A cunning look came into his eyes. "Hut remember, my dear sir, for the same amount of stock as 1 had before? fifty-one per cent." "Forty-nine," said Morgan. The young man's face was determined, masterful. Mr. Peck saw that the day of his control was gone. lie scowled into his desk a minute. "Well, let it go at that." There was a moment's pause, then he took his hat from the top of his desk and rose. "I guess T'd better be gonig," he said, with a knowing look, "so a couple of young people can make their peace." "You needn't bother," said Morgan. "We've made it." He stepped to Miss Peck's side and drew her hand through his arm. Her face was aflame and his own suddenly flushed. "The Reverend Doctor Thorndyke acted as peacemaker," he said. (Hie and.) 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A welcome as demonstrative as Mr. .ft ever received in Augusta while esident-elect or president of the lited States was given him Wednesy morning on his arrival at AugusWith 1,000 school children gath3d in and around beautiful Barrett ice, immediately in front of the ion station, and with each waving small American flag and cheering the top of his young voice; with 0 Richmond academy cadets drawn in military formation along Telr street, where the former present was driven on his way to his tcl, and with several hundred citins, including the mayor, members city council, prominent business d professional men and many wo jn, Mr. Tuft's entry into Augusta is indeed triumphal. "Citizen" Tuft showed his apprcition of the great honor which the ople of Augusta were paying him, rely because of their regard and ection for him, and the famous ft smile was much in evidence im the time that he left his private r until an automobile whisked hiiu d Mrs. Tuft and Miss Helen Taft ay to their hotel, where the exesident of the country says that he 11 rest and recreate. "1 am impatient to get to my golf cks," said Mr. Taft, "and I am ined glad of the chance to come to igusta for a few weeks." The Taft private car, containing \ and Mrs. Taft and Miss Helen, s. Thomas W. Haughliti, Mr. and s. Charles .U. 1 lilies and VV. W. scliier, the stenographer who has ^11 ~ r VI ? .X t. K niriuu milium <ni ui i>11 . i <ti t ? i?uuutterances from the time ho was osident-elect until now, was atdied to the Atlantic Coast Line tin reaching Augusta at 8:55 lock Wednesday morning. In another car was a party of Austans who went on to Washington escort Mr. Taft back homo to Austj\. Wednesday morning was takup on the golf links until lunch le. Wednesday afternoon he evinced his entirely care-free feeling ten ho and Mrs. Laugh I in, aceomnled only by the chauffeur, motorthrough the streets of the city and tde a few informal calls. Wednesday night Mr. and Mrs. ft, Miss Taft, Mrs. Laughlin, 'Mir. d Mrs. 1 lilies made up a box par.ty the theatre. (By especial request formal entertainment or functions ve been arranged. ? ? ;h offices, and we Invite President ilson to make use of it. The South has plenty of good mala! for ambassadorships and other