72 W THE HIDING-SCHOOL. 



the right, after the fashion of the Arab, the 

 Moor, the Apache, of all the nations which ride 

 for speed and for fighting rather than for leap- 

 ing and hunting, and he caught the whip from 

 the ground and was back in his place in a 

 twinkling. The ladies were unmoved, because 

 inappreciative ; the lawyer looked savagely en- 

 vious, the cavalryman and the master approving,- 

 and Theodore, frankly admiring, but no one said 

 anything, the little cavalcade rearranged itself, 

 and once more moved on at a footpace until an 

 electric car appeared. 



"Ronald is like a rock," said the master, "and 

 you need not be afraid, but I'll take this beast 

 along in advance. He will shy, or do some out- 

 rageous thing, and he has a mouth as sensitive 

 as the Mississippi's, and no more." 



The " beast " did indeed sidle and fret and 

 prance, and manifest a disposition to hasten to 

 drown himself in the reservoir, beyond the reach 

 of self-propelling vehicles, and he repeated the 

 performance at the sight of two other cars, 

 although evidently less alarmed than at first, 

 but the fourth car was in charge of a kindly- 

 disposed driver, who came to a dead stop, out 

 of pure amiability. 



