A STRENUOUS HOLIDAY 



your tent very reluctantly. She tarried with me 

 but briefly, and at three or four in the morning I 

 got up, replenished the fire, and in a camp-chair 

 beside it indulged in the *'long, long thoughts'* 

 which belong to age much more than to youth. 

 Youth w^as soundly and audibly sleeping in the 

 tents with no thoughts at all. 



The talk that first night around the camp-fire 

 gave us an inside view of many things about which 

 we were much concerned. The ship question was 

 the acute question of the hour and we had with us 

 for a few days Commissioner Hurley, of the Ship- 

 ping Board, who could give us first-hand informa- 

 tion, which he did to our great comfort. 



Our next stop was near Uniontown, Pennsyl- 

 vania, w^here for that night we slept indoors. 



On the following day one of the big cars had an 

 accident — the fan broke, and the iron punctured 

 the radiator. It looked as if we should be delayed 

 until a new radiator could be forwarded from Pitts- 

 burgh. We made our way slowly to Conncllsville, 

 where there was a good garage, but the best work- 

 men there shook their heads; they said a new radia- 

 tor was the only remedy. All four arms of tlie fan 

 were broken off and there was no way to mend 

 them. This verdict put Mr. Ford on his mettle. 

 **Give me a chance," he said, and, pulling oil his 

 coat and rolling up his sleeves, he fell to work. In 

 two hours we were ready to go ahead. By the aid 



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