satisfaction with his work, he climbed slowly into the
car, settled down luxuriously in the driver's seat,
eased off the brake, and with a little lurch of his
body forward started the car rolling down the drive-
way.

There was a risk, of course, in coasting out on to
the street with no lights, but he took it cheerfully,
planning to dodge if he saw the lights of another
car coming. It pleased him to remember that the
street inclined toward the bay. He rolled past the
house without a betraying sound, dipped over the
curb to the asphalt, swung the car townward, and
coasted nearly half a block with the ignition switch
on before he pushed up the throttle, let in his clutch,
and got the answering chug-chug of the engine.
With the lights on full he went purring down the
street in the misty fog, pleased with himself and his
mission.

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