... stood as a man might stand who sees a vision, hardly breath-ing. I made no sound, yet she turned and saw me, sheltered as Iwas by the dappled trunk of a tall plane-tree. It was as if I hadcalled, ... the car's sudden loss of power. But even as he spoke, the mystery was solved. There was a leak in the petrol-tank, near the bottom; the last drop of essencehad run away, and, as they had ... car, and afterwardsmet Carmona at another garage, he had disappeared, apparently,into thin air.Nevertheless, Dick and I formed a theory that the new auto-mobile, of which we had heard so many...