Motor Matt's Daring, or, True to His Friends

a way the law can't get a hold on him. Your father has been trapped in some way, in order to get him off the claim so Jacks co

n Ph?nix always has a joke to crack at the McReadys. They call dad a 'rainbow-chaser,' and say he never can

t a quitter and never have been. Don't try to be one now. Pull yourself together and face the

ully, lifting his hopeles

on that board in place of the one you just pulled down, and

erstand what's been done? Jacks tacked his own notice up,

'd have had to pass us. But suppose he did; suppose he has two hours the start of us-why, he's r

nd splendid confiden

no time to pull off any baby-act. I was rattled, that's all. The idea that a fortune had side-stepped the McReadys had

the rocks once more, he took two folded blanks from his poc

pencil from Matt and beginning to fill in the blank spaces; "it's

our name down as the locator. You're several years th

en we'll be sure not to get stung. I'll fill out the two of them; then, while I'

you goin

u'll make a quicker run to town than you would if I

rsation he and Chub had overheard betwee

nd here called the Sa

ld, played-out proposition by t

-trail? 'I can tell what we done at the old Santa Maria.' Those were his words,

e, Matt King, than Reddy McReady has in a year. Get ready t

get a drink," answered Matt, "an

as doing his writing. Matt hurried toward it, gave old Baldy a friendly slap a

do, and in order to help his friends, the McReadys, he would make the mi

ugh he is about to accomplish something really worth while, that

water, a wild yell came from Chub. Matt was on his feet in a jiffy, a

limbed to the top of the center monument to tack on

his hands and knees at the bottom of the pile. Chub got up angrily, and gathered in a scrap of paper th

on notice? Tryin' ter jump this here claim, hey? Waal, you scatte

oc with the plans of Matt and Chub. Bisbee was there,

rse. The animal had been ridden hard

ed a camp near-by, where he had stayed while watching Chub's father; and, naturally, it would be to this camp that Perr

r to shoulder with Chub. Perry saw him com

r ye aire!" y

his hand, and Matt saw the sun

le. "We mean bizness right from the drop o' the hat, young feller, an' if that red

, however, and Matt

s what you are! You're trying to steal this claim

en I git back, along comes you an' makes a similar kind o' break. Git away from here! My mad's up, an' I'm li'ble

, but Matt was close enough by then to pus

eapon he still clutched in his fingers. Before he could use it,

ks. "So long as the young whelps

ub ran back

att," Chub whispered, "that

, and took the paper and thrust it

Perry. "I heard McReady tell King i

ghed Jacks hoarsely. "Kin you ride one

replied

'un an' ride fer Ph?nix

ugh and jumped for the Co

that machine,

cks. "If he tries ter keep Perry from

es, and Matt halted uncertainly. The pounding of the Comet's motor

id something it had never done before. With a wheezy sputter, it stopped

ye could run it

om the saddle and letting the machine drop. "The other b

-cycle and scurrying toward the trail. Jacks

cation notice ahead o' Jacks a