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Motor Matt Makes Good or, Another Victory For the Motor Boys
MOTOR STORIES
| THRILLING ADVENTURE |
MOTOR FICTION |
| NO. 20 JULY 10, 1909. |
FIVE CENTS |
| MOTOR MATT MAKES GOOD |
ANOTHER VICTORY FOR THE MOTOR BOYS |
| By The Author of "Motor Matt" |
|
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. 20. | NEW YORK, July 10, 1909. | Price Five Cents. |
OR,
ANOTHER VICTORY FOR THE MOTOR BOYS.
By the author of "MOTOR MATT."
CONTENTS
CHAPTER I. OFF THE CHILIAN COAST.
CHAPTER II. HURLED INTO THE SEA.
CHAPTER III. SAVED BY A TORPEDO.
CHAPTER IV. WEIGHING THE EVIDENCE.
CHAPTER V. A SURPRISING SITUATION.
CHAPTER VI. ANOTHER ATTACK.
CHAPTER VII. A BAD HALF HOUR.
CHAPTER VIII. CHASING A TORPEDO.
CHAPTER IX. NORTHWARD BOUND.
CHAPTER X. A HALT FOR REPAIRS.
CHAPTER XI. DICK MAKES A DISCOVERY.
CHAPTER XII. A WARY FOE.
CHAPTER XIII. PLUCK THAT WINS.
CHAPTER XIV. A LITTLE WORK ON THE INSIDE.
CHAPTER XV. A STAR PERFORMANCE.
CHAPTER XVI. CONCLUSION.
THE SPIDER WATER.
GOOD WORDS FOR THE 'GATOR.
VENOMOUS FISH.
CHARACTERS THAT APPEAR IN THIS STORY.
Matt King, otherwise Motor Matt, king of the motor boys.
Carl Pretzel, a cheerful and rollicking German boy, stout of frame as well as of heart, who is led by a fortunate accident to link his fortunes with those of Motor Matt.
Dick Ferral, a young sea dog from Canada, with all a sailor's superstitions, but in spite of all that a royal chum, ready to stand by the friend of his choice through thick and thin.
Ensign John Henry Glennie, United States Navy.
Sons of the Rising Sun.
Captain Pons, who has come from Havre, France, to deliver the submarine boat, Pom, to the Chilian Government, only to fall into a net spread by the Sons of the Rising Sun.
Captain Sandoval, of the Chilian Navy, who has appeared before, in the Motor Stories, and appears for the last time and bows himself out.
Captain of the Port of Lota, Chili, who plays a small but important part.
CHAPTER I.
OFF THE CHILIAN COAST.
"Great spark plugs!"
"Strike me lucky!"
"Py shiminy Grismus!"
There were three surprised and excited boys on the rounded deck of the submarine boat Grampus. It was a calm, cloudless night, and the sea was as smooth as a mill pond; but, for all that, the night was cloudless, a dank, clinging fog had rolled down from the Andes and out upon the ocean, blotting out moon and star and rendering their surroundings as black as Erebus.
The Grampus was proceeding slowly northward along the Chilian coast. Motor Matt, Dick Ferral, and Carl Pretzel were on the deck forward, keeping a sharp lookout. The electric projector from the conning tower bored a gleaming hole into the darkness ahead, giving the lads a limited view in that direction. Speake was half in and half out of the conning tower, steering from that position.
The waters gurgled and lapped at the rounded sides of the boat, then floated rearward in long lines of phosphorescence, spreading out in the wake like two sticks of an open fan. At the stern of the submarine the propeller churned up a glittering froth.
What the boys saw, however, that had aroused their startled exclamations was a cluster as of glowing lights a foot or two under the surface of the water. This mysterious glow was moving, at a moderate rate of speed, in a course that crossed that of the Grampus.
"Slow down, Speake!" called Matt to the helmsman.
The jingle of a bell, down in the motor room, was