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قراءة كتاب Motor Matt's Clue or, The Phantom Auto
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MOTOR STORIES
| THRILLING ADVENTURE |
MOTOR FICTION |
| NO. 7 APR. 10, 1909. |
FIVE CENTS |
| MOTOR MATT'S CLUE |
THE PHANTOM AUTO |
| By Stanley R. Matthews. | 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. 7. | NEW YORK, April 10, 1909. | Price Five Cents. |
Motor Matt's Clue;
OR,
THE PHANTOM AUTO.
By the author of "MOTOR MATT."
CONTENTS
CHAPTER I. A NIGHT MYSTERY.
CHAPTER II. DICK FERRAL.
CHAPTER III. LA VITA PLACE.
CHAPTER IV. THE HOUSE OF WONDER.
CHAPTER V. SERCOMB.
CHAPTER VI. THE PHANTOM AUTO AGAIN.
CHAPTER VII. SURROUNDED BY ENEMIES.
CHAPTER VIII. THE KETTLE CONTINUES TO BOIL.
CHAPTER IX. ORDERED AWAY.
CHAPTER X. A NEW PLAN.
CHAPTER XI. A DARING LEAP.
CHAPTER XII. DESPERATE VILLAINY.
CHAPTER XIII. TIPPOO.
CHAPTER XIV. IN THE NICK OF TIME.
CHAPTER XV. A STARTLING INTERRUPTION.
CHAPTER XVI. THE PRICE OF TREACHERY.
CHAPTER XVII. THE LUCK OF DICK FERRAL.
BILL, THE BOUND BOY.
A WINTER STORY OF COLORADO.
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.
Uncle Jack, a wealthy Englishman, with ways and means of his own for accomplishing things, who leads a hermit's life in the wilds of New Mexico.
Dick Ferral, a Canadian boy and a favorite of Uncle Jack; has served his time in the King's navy, and bobs up in New Mexico where he falls into plots and counter-plots, and comes near losing his life.
Ralph Sercomb, a cousin of Dick Ferral, and whose sly, treacherous nature is responsible for Dick's troubles.
Joe Mings,
Harry Packard,
Balt Finn,} three unscrupulous friends of Sercomb, all motor-drivers, and who come from Denver to help Sercomb in his nefarious plans.
CHAPTER I.
A NIGHT MYSTERY.
"Oh, py shiminy! Look at dere, vonce! Vat it iss, Matt? Br-r-r! I feel like I vould t'row some fits righdt on der shpot! It's a shpook, you bed you!"
A strange event was going forward, there under the moon and stars of that New Mexico night. The wagon-road followed the base of a clifflike bank, and at the outer edge of the road there was a precipitous fall into Stygian darkness.
A second road entered the first through a narrow gully. A few yards beyond the point where the thoroughfares joined an automobile was halted, its twin acetylene lamps gleaming like the eyes of some fabled monster in the semigloom.
Two boys were on the front seat of the automobile, and one of them had leaned over and gripped the arm of the lad who had his hands on the steering-wheel. The eyes of the two in the car were staring ahead.
What the boys saw was sufficiently startling, in all truth.
Out of the gully, directly in advance of them, had rolled a white automobile—springing ghostlike out of the darkness as it came under the glare of the acetylene lights.
The white car was a runabout, with two seats in front and an abnormally high deck behind. It carried no lamps, moved with weird silence, and, strangest of all, there was no one in either seat! Yet, with no hand on the steering-wheel, the white car made the dangerous turn out of the gully into the main road with the utmost ease, and was now continuing on between the foot of the