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

zed what had happened until it was all over. Although a little dazed by the whirl of events, and stil

intended to make of it, by discovering who had placed it under the rubber mat in the tonneau. S

e only a few yards behind the men who had attacked them, and they would have been right on the others' heels

lley, with the sounds he had been following abruptly blotted into silence. While he stood there, wondering which way the men had gone, a pounding of horses

take the men, but he had hoped to come close enoug

er mix-oop aboudt?" came the voice of Carl

f them, and they had their horses in the alley. One of them grab

ing. Ve know vat it hat on der insite,

ssibility have been him, and it's a cinch they were in the barn to get that letter. We blundere

t's der vorst vat can be saidt oof Domlinson. Dose t

ust hav

Wienerwurst! Say, I vish I could haf hanted him a cholt in

This is a mighty puzzling proposition we're up against, and I can't make head or tail out of it. If Tomlinson didn't have anything to do with th

dt. Dot pig ret car comes rolling righdt oop to us, invitationing us to grab holt und keep it-vich ve don'd. Den ve findt t'irty t'ousant tollars' vort oof bearls vich likevise say for us to cash dem

itement in and around the barn had not claimed the notice of any one in the hotel or on the street. What

him into the barn. "I saw a lantern on the wall, when we br

tt struck a match, found t

Red Flier. "Ve couldt haf peen laidt oudt for keeps mitoudt addracting any addent

Matt, "but, as there isn't, I have a notion to bunk

serted Carl, "I vill

to do is to watch and see that th

, Matt," answered Carl firmly.

t and "turned over" the engine. "Everything appears to be just as we left it," he added

idn'd know a tin

looks. Of course, i

the front of the machine. A crunch of footsteps could

the arm and pulled him across the barn and into a

ngs vas habbenin' to-nighdt. Dose two felle

" warn

a dark form could be seen against th

t behind him. It was impossible for the boys to see him very pla

he scratching of a match. Two hands could be seen, one holding the match and the other a piece of

s Tom

m. Taking the hand from his arm, Matt pressed it to signify that t

ut him through the gloom. Rest and food had brought back most of

the tonneau door, stooped and pulled up the rubber mat.

etting down on his knees in the tonneau and then c

nd when he got out of it, and stood for a moment in front o

t the candle, flung it away from hi

d Carl, with a long breat

aid Matt grimly, "and so am

since you shtopped der car ven it vas running avay mit itseluf-schust vone keveer t'ing afder s

e he

der fellers

do

dder feller

I was the one who took it,

Vill you go und tell

p to ourselves. We don't know enough, ye

to Tenver m

here between Ash Fork and Flagstaff. You go on up to the room, Carl, and go carefully. I'll sleep in the Red Flier. The car

led upon to carry out Matt's suggestion. Matt g

me before he went to sleep. However, he dozed off at last and did not open his eyes

y in the tonneau, the f

ped back in consternation; then, recovering himself,

cion in his eyes and a