"If you
will think back just a little, I think you will admit that I have been
guilty very seldom of sticking up my nose at anything
"Except Percy Falconer," finished Grace drolly, and they both laughed
merrily.
"Poor Percy!" said Betty, chewing her candy contentedly. "I suppose he
will hate us more heartily than ever now."
They were running some eight or ten miles from the town along a quiet
stretch of road, never dreaming of danger, when Betty's little racer
nosed around a bend in the road and came smack into it! Not twenty
feet ahead of them a man sprang into the middle of the road and
leveled a revolver at them! In one electrified instant they saw that
the fellow wore a mask and a slouch hat and looked for all the world
like a brigand straight out of some sensational moving picture.
Betty, more surprised at first than alarmed, put on her brakes and
came to a standstill, at the same time putting out a hand to warn the
car behind them.
"Oh, Betty, we are being held up!" moaned Grace, who evidently was
frightened enough for both of them.
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