"I had had a bad case up the road," replied the doctor slowly,
"and it had kept me out late. I was driving my car along at a
cautious pace homeward, some time near two o'clock, when I came to
a point in the road where there are hills on one side and the
river on the other. As I neared the curve, a rather sharp curve,
too, I remember the lights on my own car were shining on the white
fence that edged the river side of the road. I was keeping
carefully on my own side, which was toward the hill.
"As I was about to turn, I heard the loud purring of an engine
coming in my direction, and a moment later I saw a car with
glaring headlights, driven at a furious pace, coming right at me.
It slowed up a little, and I hugged the hill as close as I could,
for I know some of these reckless young drivers up that way, and
this curve was in the direction where the temptation is for one
going north to get on the wrong side of the road--that is, my
side--in order to take advantage of the natural slope of the
macadam in turning the curve at high speed.
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