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The Motor Girls on a Tour
The second installment of the Motor Girls takes Cora and her friends on further automotive adventures. In the book’s opening sentences, the car gets top billing and a name: “The big maroon car glided along in such perfect rhythm that Cora Kimball, the fair driver of the Whirlwind, heard scarcely a sound of its mechanical workings. To her the car went noiselessly - the perfection of its motion was akin to the very music of silence.” Observers respond to this “handsome machine” with admiration, and we learn that the folks in Cora’s hometown are “becoming accustomed to the sight of these girls in their cars, and a run of the of the motor girls was now looked on as a daily occurrence…Cora Kimball was considered an expert driver.” By the end of the book, the Motor Girls thwart a swindling scheme, restoring funds to a disabled orphan who is then able to afford treatment for her condition. -AJP