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THE gyro-car ran that afternoon with such easy speed that Maurice Buckland was stirred out of his carefully cultivated indifference. Before it had gone a quarter of a mile he had ejaculated "By George!" three times in a crescendo of admiration, and gave a heart assent to George's assertion that "she" was a spanker. Nor was he perturbed when she narrowly shaved a foreign looking man hanging about at the corner of the road that led to the Weybridge Ferry. After half an hour's spin George suggested that they should try her on the water, but then Maurice relapsed into his former sceptical manner and declared that he had had enough for one day.
On the way back they again passed the foreigner, who stood aside and watched the strange car as it flashed by.