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`` No hurry , Ruth , '' Aunt Sallie answered , placidly . `` New Haven is no great distance . We shall be there before dark . '' It was fully half after two before the automobile girls had gathered up their belongings and were again comfortably disposed in the car . `` It certainly is great , Ruth , the way you crank up your own car , '' Grace declared . `` It must take an awful lot of strength , does n't it ? '' `` Yes , '' admitted Ruth , as she jumped back into her automobile and the car plunged on ahead .