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قراءة كتاب Motor Matt's Mystery or, Foiling a Secret Plot
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Motor Matt's Mystery or, Foiling a Secret Plot
MOTOR STORIES
| THRILLING ADVENTURE |
MOTOR FICTION |
| NO. 5 MAR. 27, 1909. |
FIVE CENTS |
| MOTOR MATT'S MYSTERY |
OR FOILING A SECRET PLOT |
Street & Smith, Publishers, New York. |
| MOTOR STORIES | |
| THRILLING ADVENTURE | MOTOR FICTION |
Issued Weekly. By subscription $2.50 per year. Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1909, in the Office of the Librarian of Congress,
Washington, D. C., by Street & Smith, 79-89 Seventh Avenue, New York, N. Y.
| No. 5. | NEW YORK, March 27, 1909. | Price Five Cents. |
Motor Matt's Mystery;
OR,
FOILING A SECRET PLOT.
By the author of "MOTOR MATT."
CONTENTS
CHAPTER I. A DUTCHMAN IN TROUBLE.
CHAPTER II. THE RUNAWAY AUTO.
CHAPTER III. THE MAN AT THE ROADSIDE.
CHAPTER IV. THE MYSTERY DEEPENS.
CHAPTER V. MATT GETS A JOB.
CHAPTER VI. CONCERNING THE LETTER.
CHAPTER VII. THE TWO HORSEMEN.
CHAPTER VIII. ON THE ROAD.
CHAPTER IX. IN THE HANDS OF THE ENEMY.
CHAPTER X. A SHIFT IN THE SITUATION.
CHAPTER XI. A SURPRISE.
CHAPTER XII. ESCAPE.
CHAPTER XIII. THE HUT IN THE HILLS.
CHAPTER XIV. BACK TO THE CAR.
CHAPTER XV. A RACE AND A RUSE.
CHAPTER XVI. IN ASH FORK.
A YOUNG MARINER'S PERIL.
SWANS CARRIED OVER NIAGARA FALLS.
PARA RUBBER AND ITS GATHERING.
QUEER CALIFORNIAN TRADERS.
BURROWING FISHES.
TURN RIVER TO MINE ITS BED.
CHARACTERS THAT APPEAR IN THIS STORY.
Matt King, concerning whom there has always been a mystery—a lad of splendid athletic abilities, and never-failing nerve, who has won for himself, among the boys of the Western town, the popular name of "Mile-a-minute Matt."
Carl Pretzel, a cheerful and rollicking German lad, who is led by a fortunate accident to hook up with Motor Matt in double harness.
James Q. Tomlinson, the jeweler from Denver, who seems to have troubles of his own, and about whose identity there is more or less confusion.
Trymore,
Hank,
Spangler,} a trio of sporting gentlemen who believe in hunting big game, and who consider themselves experts in the line of choice gems. Pringle, once honest Carl's pardner in vaudeville, but latterly engaged in a far less honorable business.
Gregory, a chauffeur.
Hop Loo,
Charley Sing,} the two eccentric laundrymen of Ash Fork.
CHAPTER I.
A DUTCHMAN IN TROUBLE.
Whiz, bang!
"Dutchee boy no good! Have gotee mon, no makee pay. Whoosh! Allee same cheap skate!"
Whiz, bang, clatter, bang!
"Vat's der madder mit you, hey? You vas grazier as I can't tell! Py shiminy grickets, oof you hit me mit a flad-iron I vill mad be as some hornets. Shtop a leedle, und I vill——"
There followed a wild yell, a pandemonium as though Bedlam had been turned loose, and then a heavy fall and sudden quiet.
Motor Matt, just turning into the yard of a small adobe house, heard the tremendous uproar and came to a startled halt.
Hop Loo, a Chinese laundryman, lived in the house, and Matt was just coming after his week's wash.
Under a cotton-wood tree in the yard, some fifteen feet from the house, was a wash-tub mounted on a couple of chairs. Between the tree