. En route; a descriptive automobile tour through nine countries & over nineteen great passes of Europe . THE GREAT ST. GOTHARD I used to think I knew Europe, began Ken, but Im beginning to find out that I only knewfragments of it—only the towns and places westayed at and, may be, a few miles of their sur-roundings. The journeys from one centre to anotherwere exactly similar : ever the same stuffy train,,rushing across unnoticed country, and it was for thejourneys end and a warm bath that one its for the journey itself. Horses, I amashamed to say, are too slow for long ;

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. En route; a descriptive automobile tour through nine countries & over nineteen great passes of Europe . THE GREAT ST. GOTHARD I used to think I knew Europe, began Ken, but Im beginning to find out that I only knewfragments of it—only the towns and places westayed at and, may be, a few miles of their sur-roundings. The journeys from one centre to anotherwere exactly similar : ever the same stuffy train,,rushing across unnoticed country, and it was for thejourneys end and a warm bath that one its for the journey itself. Horses, I amashamed to say, are too slow for long ; theres only one way to enjoy travelling, andthats by automobile—Mercedes preferred. Do you ever realise what an ardent anti-motoristyou once were ? slyly remarked Dorothy. I do, replied Ken, generously, and I feelthoroughly ashamed of the things Ive said. Inthe future you can put me down as a ferventconvert. The murderous horse-power is not so verydreadful, I murmured. To-day has proved that, said Sheila,—and wefell to discussing the wonders of the Gothard. 41 CHAPTER IV OVER THE SIMPLON TO THE

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