For the gray automobiles and the gray motorcycles bearing messengers one side of the street always was kept clear; and so compact was the column, so rigid the vigilance of the file-closers, that at the rate of forty miles an hour a car could race the length of the column and need not for a single horse or man once swerve from its course.

He made his appearance again in a minute trundling a magnificent motorcycle.

" "Who took him to the doctor's?" "It was a couple, the doctor said, who explained that they had found Dean lying in the road under his wrecked motorcycle.