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Excerpt from An Ordeal of Honor Ten miles to walk, and it will be dark in half an hour! She said aloud. Here's a unique opportunity for a Romantic Occurrence: why doesn't some one young and charming appear and pick me up '1 As if fate had overheard the challenge, there came at that moment, from behind a bend of the hills, the hoot of an approaching car. The young girl looked back, but with a doubtful aspect. Motoring people aren't nice except to other motorists, ' she re ected; they always might tow you up a hill, and they never do. Besides, with a disparaging glance at the road, which was little better than a cart track, the man at this wheel must be mad. As she said it, the motor swung round a corner and came into sight: a big open car in green and silver, the glare of its great lamps aming out like searchlights. Empty except for the man who drove, it came racing up the hill at top speed, with the ease of power held in restraint, till it was abreast of the bicycle: there it halted. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."