"Well," remarked Sid in a strange voice, "we're alive, at any rate."
"Yes," added Bess sharply, "and no thanks to somebody, either."
"If you mean me--" began Sid, the color flaming into his face.
"Look at your radiator!" suddenly exclaimed Walter. "It's sprung a
leak!"
A stream of water, trickling down from the front of the Streak
testified to this. A piece of the broken fence rail had jammed into
the radiator, puncturing several coils and bending others out of
place.
"No more go in her," observed Sid ruefully. "We'll have to be towed
back home."
"Is your car damaged much, Cora?" asked Walter, for the girl had
leaped out and was critically examining the auto.
"Only the mud guard," she replied as she reached up to the steering
wheel, touched the levers and shut off the engine.
CHAPTER VI
GETTING A TOW
For a few minutes every one seemed to be talking at once, and there
was considerable confusion. Sid and Ida came in for a number of
rather angry glances, for the mishap seemed to be due entirely to
their thoughtless conduct, and that their runabout had been the most
damaged did not appear to lessen their offense.
Walter took the wheel of the Whirlwind, which Cora gladly
relinquished to him, and soon had the car out of the ditch and upon
the highway.
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