THE MYSTERIOUS AUTO They awoke then, alarmed and confused, and stared with sleepy eyes at the white radiance which, entering door and window, showed with startling detail the bare walls of their refuge.

Even as they looked the light vanished and, by contrast, the darkness seemed blacker than ever.
"Awake, Amy ?" whispered Clint.
"Yes.

Say, what the dickens was that ?" "I don't know.

Listen!" From somewhere not far away came the steady purring of a motor car.
Their minds didn't work very quickly yet, and it was fully a minute before Clint exclaimed: "An auto! Then we must be near the road!" He scrambled to his feet and crept, unsteadily because of chilled limbs, to the doorway.

Amy followed.