Chapter I. Cora and Her Car

"Now you‘ve got it, what are you going to do with it?" asked Jack Kimball, with a most significant smile at his sister Cora.

"Do with it?" repeated the girl, looking at her questioner in surprise； then she added, with a fine attempt at sarcasm: "Why, I‘m going to have Jim break it up for kindling wood. It will make such a lovely blaze on the library hearth. I have always loved blazing autos."

"Now, sis," objected the tall, handsome boy, as he swung his arm about the almost equally tall, and even handsomer girl, "don‘t get mad."

"Oh, I‘m not in the least angry."

"Um! Maybe not. Put I honestly thought--well, maybe you would like some of the boys to give you a lesson or two in driving the new car. There‘s Wally, you know. Ahem! I thought perhaps Wally--"

"Walter can run a machine--I‘m perfectly willing to grant you that, Jack. But this is my machine, and I intend to run it."

The girl stepped over to a window and l

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