This is how Fate did it,--and I will say it was an original idea: Casey had a gallon syrup can in the car which he used for extra oil for the engine.

Having an appetite for sour-dough biscuits and syrup, he had also a gallon can of syrup in the car.

It was a terrifically hot day, and the wind that blew full against Casey's left cheek as he drove burned even his leather skin where it struck.

Casey was afraid he was running short of water, and a Ford's comfort comes first,--as every man knows; so that Casey was parched pretty thoroughly, inside and out.

Within a mile of Furnace Lake he stopped, took an unsatisfying sip from his big canteen and emptied the rest of the water into the radiator.