Pork in "n" "n" "her"
would be seen"
"chim the other
Directly from the
Street of the
The Vue, an"
were
Yorant "of" the "reaT Zluro'o'f
the Invention regarded It as a kind of
a motor miracle, but Christopher and
others, who had read with Intelligent
Interest of the machine which was being made, understood more or less
what was happening. They knew that
the cigar-shaped vehicle was kept on its feet, so to speak, by the two small
gyroscopes spinning in. Healed chambers, one on each side of the car, and
driven by the current from a small
electric battery.
The freaks were busy getting away
the girl had hopped into the gyroscopic car once more, an official observer from the club by her side, and
then, with scarcely a sound from the
engines, the black cigar-shaped cat
shot ahead like a shark chasing its prey. Two minutes later came Christopher's turn, his own "observer" having by this time mounted to the seat beside him. They were off to cover
the first mile of the thousand which
would complete the test. And not one
man but was his own chauffeur.
Through London and the streets of
suburbia that lies between town  and
I country the long line of strange-looking automobiles?many built for the training of this race?ran slowly enough, serpentining in and out of traffic. The order had been given that no competitor must pass another until open spaces had been reached; therefore, Christopher was compelled to keep at the enemy's back, he had but too many opportunities for observing the big car and its chauffeuse. 