Motor Matt's Race

Matt's shoulder and reading the message. "I

here I'm in starting on a wild-goose chase into the hills, looking for that rifled cache where Clip says he dug up the gold! Jump in, Matt, I want to take you

nd Chub climbed in. Matt wal

s examination, Mr.

ock this a

re the bank closes and i

t back here by

ed up the machine, go

nxious to get back, and he had Leffingwell hangin

where Clip and Pima Pete dug up th

ip says they dug it up,

you whe

es

he place you'll b

e, and to say Fresnay's money came out of it. By the way," the sheriff went on, deftly changing the subject, "you were with Dangerfield quite a whi

" answered Matt. "There's a whole lot to it that co

hole, Matt, you don't want to keep anything back, no matter what Clip says. You've got

ough it would explain a few things that are countin

, "have you any idea who Da

has a father living

'll wire that t

while he was trying to pick up Welcome during the stampede. Leaving the car in charge of Chub, Matt, McKibben, and L

fifteen minutes of scrambling among the rocks, McKibben brought his two companions to a halt at the foot of a rocky hill. Here there was a hol

l," remarked McKibben. "W

" replied the deputy, "an'

e print of a moccasin and of a boot-sole in the soft s

," commented Leffingwell, "but I'll be

f the hole for a few minutes and then t

d for it," said he, as he de

ne," ad

have Danger

sworn statement hel

weight Pima Pete's affidavit woul

Fresnay had been robbed. The road was hard at this point, and

and no moccasin-tracks found, a good point would have been scored for

00 of the money that had been paid to him as a reward for bringing in Dangerfield, and the boys proceeded at

d was professionally brusk and brutally frank. But he had already heard of Clip's arrest, and, as everybody in town knew Motor Ma

got to spend on this, K

t, "but I'll need some of

expe

when you tell me whether o

s, and induce him to tell what he knows, he's a gone gosling. If I get him clear I

said Matt, and Short gave him a

e clues you ha

that morning. The lawyer examined it, puckered up

'll go over and talk with Clipperton. Probably we'll waive examination. He'll be held to the circuit court, now in session, and the case w

rt," said Matt sharply. "Clip's as

nt to lose out, for it means something to me if I win. You boys might go over with me to see Clipper

his hat and star

be required to get C

an get it do

friends

clared Short; "Governo

oward Clip, I can't ask any of

trial in two or three days. The court is now

the necessary permit for the boys and the l

t. Matt's sympathy went out to him, and, after introducing the lawyer, he slapped hi

s of the affair. Matt did not tell Clip about the note received through Mrs. Spooner, thinking h

raw from the case. "What can we do for a fellow wh

he could, and the boys left him at the fo

cker, but hanging out like this is the worst kind of foolishness on Clip's part. He's crazy, to act like

got to win this game for Clip on the lines he has lai

l sis, eat my dinner, and

're ready come aroun

ok his way toward his boarding-house. As if he had not already had enough to discour

like his looks any too well, but I tried to get him to tell his name, knowin' how curious y

Mrs. Spooner," said Matt, "for

s better written and better spelled than the other note had been, and was plainly

however, wer

ll never get there alive. Take

was of some importance, or the present writer woul

teely glint came into Matt's eyes,

muttered, "and I guess we can take care