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

e few hours he and Matt had been fighting for the claim

m laugh. "It's what they call stealing your own thunder

eyes snapped vindictively as h

is office in Ph?nix at

es

o-day was by sending Perry on the motor-cycle. When we left Delray, he said something about lending us a gun. I don't be

a fierce desire to do something-anything-wh

record, that's what

Chub. With your father's testimony, and ours, y

out. There's no use talking about a legal fight, Matt. Possession is nine points of the law, and the man who files his location notice first al

d Jacks, "ye'll jest turn face-about an' jog fer that sc

the rocks, twenty-five or thirty feet long by a dozen wide, and with pr

into that hole in the r

laugh, "that we're goin' ter keep ye with us all night. Arter it gits

ed Chub. "Somebody's goin' to settle for this busine

cks, "but jest now you're follerin' my orders, sabe

and started forward

yelled Chub, doubling up his f

ng his chum's arm and leading him into t

," demurred Chub. "There's no tellin' what kind o

il you can find him, even if you can't take up the hunt until t

t the front of the notch. From this position, even after it grew da

ard the claim and see Jacks taking Perry's horse to the spring. Saddle and bridle were stripped from the horse, and the animal was secured w

Chub, "they're taking

hey give us our supper. I feel as though I'd been throu

e, to make sure Bis

he work we'll do to-night, Matt, will be

everything's quiet, I'm going to climb out of here, fix

ou couldn't reach town before to-morrow. The othe

until the recorder himsel

e in Chub's eyes, although

em to know when you're down and out.

to the wall there than anywhere else, and Matt had already marked out his foot and hand hold

d be hard enough, but at night you'd be sur

getaway to-night,"

We could drop on him during the night, and if we wor

und the camp a little, you know, and tinker with the Comet. All

cing up that precipice. He thinks too much o

raw Bisbee and Jacks after me, Chub, and you can walk

to the opening of the notch, and set down a tin cup of

same cup," said he. "This hotel's kinder short on plates an

o chums fell to on their food. After it was eate

est. One minute it is daylight, and almost the

e horse and burro could be heard tramping around the spring, but these soun

with a blanket under him, was lying across the entrance and snoring. Midnight was passed and the h

've tied my shoes together by the laces and they're hanging around

his hand and wrun

answered, "but I appreciate what you're tryin' to do for the McReadys, just the s

ut there's only one motor-cycle, you know, and, besides, y

. We've got to separate

u hear me yell," finishe

fting downward of sand, the faint crunch of a loose stone under a stockinged foot, a stifled breathing, as of some one working hard and trying to work quietly. Steadily the sounds mounted

in' in thar

red out and want to sleep. Move over a little, Matt," he added, as thou

to breathe. The sounds on the wall had ceased, and Chub bega

began wondering what had become of his chum. The opposite side of the notch was the slope of

ere in rags and he was imagining all sorts of wild

ht you had us, but you've

yell. Jacks broke off his snore

matter?" h

t away!" cried th

eceding in the direction of t

onsarn 'em, anyways! Why didn't ye watch,

nd snarling at each other as they ran. Chub, losing no tim

hope of his getting to Ph?nix in time to save the claim. But why had Matt taken the horse?