. The Saturday evening post. e bout just as pretty as ever. Nonsense, Eddie! she replied deso-lately. Im terribly weak and think of it! The Jacob Aladdins werecomirg. If we cancel the party everybodywill think weve quarreled again. And Illhave to ask your father to telephone toeverybody and call it all off. The name Jacob Aladdin meant muchto all the Ransom family, who, being peopleof very plain origin as the world classessuch things, had prospered steadily in thewholesale drug business. To the elderMrs. Ransom social recognition was as theflower of paradise. For years there hadbeen
. The Saturday evening post. e bout just as pretty as ever. Nonsense, Eddie! she replied deso-lately. Im terribly weak and think of it! The Jacob Aladdins werecomirg. If we cancel the party everybodywill think weve quarreled again. And Illhave to ask your father to telephone toeverybody and call it all off. The name Jacob Aladdin meant muchto all the Ransom family, who, being peopleof very plain origin as the world classessuch things, had prospered steadily in thewholesale drug business. To the elderMrs. Ransom social recognition was as theflower of paradise. For years there hadbeen a coolness between the Ransoms andthe eminently desirable Jacob was an old feud, dating back to the timewhen Mrs. Aladdin had arranged that theRansoms should not be admitted to theBurlingame Club. And in view of pasthistory Mrs. Ransoms unlucky receptionbegan taking on a new importance. Eddie sat running his fingers throughhis hair, uncertain as to which way his(Continued on Page 87) THE SATURDAY EVENING POST 85. The Pikes Peak Champion Lexington Leads in Power, Endurance, and Hill-Climbing Performance DATTLING through a blinding mountainr~* snowstorm up Pikes Peak for 12 steepmiles, around 142 hazardous turns, a LexingtonSpecial won over a field of 15 cars. The winnerstime was 22 minutes, 25-2/5 seconds. Only5-2/5 seconds behind came the other LexingtonSpecial, winner of second place, defeatingboth cars of higher price and those that hadbeen especially built. To make this clean sweep calls for unusualreserve power, quick acceleration, and perfect control at all times. It furnishes positive evi-dence to the car purchaser that Lexington leadsin both ability and reliability. It verifies whatevery owner of a Lexington Thorobred alreadyknows. The success of this car has been phe-nomenal. The body lines, the color scheme, theseating arrangement, and all the other finepoints of the Thorobred are an original and dis-tinct expression of the most advanced sportcar style. Wh
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