Chapter 28—The Last Moves of the Hypperbone Match
Needless to depict Lizzie Wag’s state of mind when she separated from Max Real to take his place at Richmond. Leaving in the evening of the 13th, she could not help thinking that next day fate would do for Max Real what it had done for her—that is to say, render him his liberty and give him an opportunity of getting on the move again along the vast race-course of the United States of America.
A prey to feelings she kept to herself, she ensconced herself in a corner of the car, and Jovita Foley, sitting near her, did not attempt to worry her companion with untimely conversations.
From St. Louis to Richmond is but seven hundred miles across Missouri, Kentucky, West Virginia, and Virginia. It was in the morning of the 14th that the two trav
