For some time they had a clear run.

Then suddenly the driver clapped on his brakes.
"My God!" he cried.

"We can't get through that!" In front of them for more than a hundred yards the water seemed suddenly to have flowed across the road.

Still a mile distant, perched on a ridge of that strangely-placed hill, was their destination.
"It can't be done, sir!" the man groaned.

"There isn't a car ever built could get through that.