The Scarlet Car, and Other Stories

Billy Winthrop drives his friends to the Harvard–Yale game in his scarlet touring car — among them Miss Forbes, whom he loves, and Peabody, who is engaged to her — and before the road to New Haven is done they have become jail-breakers, trespassers and kidnappers. Three more stories complete the book: My Buried Treasure, The Consul and The Lost House. Davis was the most famous reporter of his age ...