Accordingly, a few minutes
later he was behind the steering-wheel of the fast roadster, picking his
way through the traffic-burdened city streets and pointing straight for
the country road leading north to the sage-brush hills.
Now, among its many attractions, motoring numbers--from the driver's
point of view--this: that it effectually sweeps the brain of all other
cares and distractions, sundry and several, since one may not drive a
high-powered car at speed and successfully think of anything but the
driving. Blount reached the entrance to the cottonwood-shaded avenue at
Wartrace Hall just before the dinner hour; and he was so far recovered
from the attack of righteous indignation that he was able to meet his
father and the others with a fair degree of equanimity. In the back part
of his mind, however, he held the fighting ultimatum in suspense. In
the course of the evening he would make his opportunity and have it out,
once for all, with the master plotter. So much he determined while he
was dressing for dinner. But the course of events is sometimes a most
unmalleable thing, as he was presently to learn.
At the dinner-table it was the professor who monopolized the
conversation, holding forth learnedly and dictatorially upon matters
pertaining solely to the Pliocene age, and never once suffering the talk
to approach nearer than several million years to the twentieth century.
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