Motor Matt's Mystery; or, Foiling a Secret Plot

arrow, and was almost as level and smooth as a boulevard. Ahead of them, as they moved forward, the boys could see the marks le

" remarked Carl, "dot dis c

oks of the road, no car has come into town or gone out of it for several hours, except this one. Keep a sharp watch on your si

ing as sharp as some veasels

that no clues which might have been left i

, suddenly, when they were about four miles from town, Matt's sharp glan

?" asked Ca

I'll show you,

ar, Matt pointed to a spot close to the wheel

a puzzled way, "dot looks schust like some feller had t'rowed a bag der ca

a bag that could mo

Carl, his bewil

road mark in the dust had

ntinued Matt, "wasn't thrown out. If I'm

ed you. How you make dot figuring, anyvay? I know as mooch as you, meppy

road opposite from that where the

, and when the car came into town, the wheels on the left side went over that ridge, tilting

t itseluf. Funny pitzness. Der furder vat ve g

e trail and see

ay from der car. Some goot-for-nodding fel

e'll have to go

eerful. Oof I can't go py Tenfer in dot car it vill be

ention to Carl's last remarks, was moving off in the dir

ong behind him, saw him stoop down and disappear below the tops of the bushes. The next moment, the Dutch boy heard a

e, Carl!"

g, hey?" asked Carl, flou

ater, Carl's fac

eaned space in the thicket. The man's hat lay beside him, and about his forehead was tied

ispered Carl. "Iss

breast; then, lifting up one of his limp wris

ive," sa

pag vat tropped o

driver's seat. When the car pitched to the right he was

his head v

ng ago, Carl, that he took his header from the car, and that bandage

to shtay py der car, how he

gth going, he lashed the wheel in order to keep the machine on a s

t'ink he

t looks like f

I say: Der more vat ve hunt ar

ssed, and thirty-fiv

een the owner of the car. I shouldn'

pulled a fine gold watch from the vest pocket. "Vat vas der roppers t'inking aboudt ven dey held der feller oop und didn't take dis? Und den, again,

l," said Matt. "The car is a fast one, a

s all in kinks und I don'

ork and into a doctor's hands. We ought to do that, anyway, and the qu

s der

ft him by the shoulders. As the limp form was sl

ed Carl. "Vait a leedle

ed and picked up an object t

er!" excl

heeled mit himseluf. Meppy

rt of the country, it would only have been a wise p

oy examined

r goot vones," he announced. "He m

n your pocket and let

out of the thicket and into the road. Close to the car th

car," said Matt, "he had to d

d in der roadt somepody who v

, the only way for us to get to the bottom of this thing is b

of laundry from the seat into the bottom of the car, the b

se dropped out of his pockets and fell

Carl, who was in the tonneau

taking the object from the r

small g

ggested Carl. "Meppy it vill gif

k only a moment, and Matt thrust in his hand and drew out several small spheres about the s

the little obje

y he vas carrying pills in a silk

ese are not pills, but pearls-black pearls, the rarest gems that