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

r that Matt King and the Dutchman brought you to town in an

ot at, and wounded slightly, but the car w

bouts wa

. I don't think it would do you any

long ways from where they tried to hol

'll soon get over that. It's necessary for me to go

e or four days, anyhow, Mr. To

or me at Flagstaff." Tomlinson's tone was decided, and he tu

ered the yo

t I've been hearing ab

for a while, and that's wh

ou doing in

looking f

and will pay you one hundred dollar

it seemed fully as good as anything he could pick up in Ash Fork. Besides, there w

att. "Where do we go a

ver for the same reason." He took a roll of bills from his pocket, stripped off a twenty-dollar bank-note and handed it to Matt. "Here's some mo

he doctor, and must have pocketed more money

ed Tomlinson, of the deputy sheriff.

d the offic

to Tenver, Misder Domlinson, vat's der madder mit ledding me rite al

ked Carl over

know why I shouldn't. I

ing to Matt, in the few hours he had known him, and w

e doctor opening the doors obsequiously ahead of them. When the do

s one of the biggest wholesale jewelers in the West, and he's got m

a rite py Tenver for vat I dit, und he gifs Matt a chob like vat he c

"Before you get through with him you'll f

en him before, do

m in the Denver newspapers. You c

eft, "aber I got some hunches dot I'm goin' to keep righdt on vaidin',

the walk, Carl laid

ard-pill in town und it iss pedder dot I pay it pefore I hike. I can't gif you nodding but my vort do

ou to go along with us if you didn't have your debts paid. I'm getting a hundr

ed Carl, "und ve vill be fast

red Matt heartily, "ri

arl went off to square his board-bill M

veyed the superb machine. From now on the car was to be under his care, and to run under his hands. Motors we

ring-car with no more baggage than Mr. Tomlinson had with him. But that was Mr. Tomlinson's business,

the hood claimed his first care; then he examined the water-tank, the sparking-apparatus, and finally came to the point where he

object was a letter, which might have got under the mat by m

ugh the mails, and had been posted in Flagstaff several days before. The

ess was evidence enough that the letter did not belong to

sick at the Needles. Thinking that this was the way of it, Matt started to put the lett

"you've feathered your nest in good shape. Tomlinson is load

o?" quer

was goin' to make a m

k with Mr. T

, a l

the name of his

t remember

ainted over i

everybody

more, Jame

sheriff was amazing. He gave a jump and

ask me that fo

I wanted

line on that feller, or have y

noti

crook named Denny Jerome, otherwise Denver Denny, otherwise James Trymore, had escaped from

at showing. Parrying his curiosity with some offhand remark, Matt pushe

e in Mr. Tomlinson's car? Matt began to think that the day's proceedings, taken all together,