"Not that I am particularly nervous," she hastily added, as the girls
looked at her suspiciously. "Only I will feel just as well when we
have put a dozen miles between us and that highway robber, instead of
only half that. I wish there was a town handy where we could notify
the authorities."
They started on again, and as the miles slid past them they became
less nervous and even began to laugh a little at thought of the
robber's consternation when he received the contents of Betty's pepper
gun full in his face.
"He was probably the most surprised crook ever," commented Grace with
a chuckle. "He never will get over cursing you, Betty. How did you
ever happen to have it? The pepper gun, I mean," she added curiously.
Betty explained how the gun had come into her possession. "I didn't
know," she added ruefully, her foot on the accelerator as they sped up
a steep hill, "when I bought it, that it would come in so handy. How
much further do you suppose we have to go?" she asked, changing the
subject abruptly.
"Why," said Grace, looking at her wrist watch and realizing suddenly
that she was getting rather hungry, "we have been riding since ten
o'clock and it is now after noon.
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