We might if we had lots of time, but that we haven't got." The three cadets stared blankly at each other.

Here they were on a lonely road, and what to do none of them knew.
"Oh, if I only had Ritter here wouldn't I punch his head good!" muttered Pepper.
"Ritter will keep.

Let us look over the machines and make up our minds what is to be done," said Jack.
The more they inspected the wheels the more hopeless appeared the task of fixing them up so they could be used.
"We simply haven't got time to bother with them," announced Jack.

"We've got to get to the Lodge some other way." "Well, what way ?" asked Andy.
"I wonder if we could hire a rig at the next farmhouse." "Well, we can try that," answered Pepper.
Trundling their bicycles, they hurried along the country road until they reached a farmhouse.
"Looks as if they were all out or gone to bed," was Jack's comment, for not a light showed about the place.
"We'll soon know," returned Pepper, and he pounded lustily on the front door.
There was no answer to this summons, and he pounded again.

But nobody appeared.
"Gone away for the day, I guess," he said.