The Motor Rangers Through the Sierras

ed Joe, as if this fact w

who just came down the trail is

ali

s what you

have a da

guess he's here to meet whoever is c

ing to stay

hese chaps are up to some mischief. It doesn't loo

upposing they are desperate charac

well hidden in the shadow here. Ther

I hope

were two of them, both, so far as the boys could see, big, heavy men, mounted on active little p

them, as the black mustached

tone as if the speaker had no fear of bein

ever heard at the top of the trail all of a sudden. It came just as we was about ter go through ther p

and the other replied with a look of understanding. The men who stood t

t the mention of the "terrible noise" his

an automobubb

name of the snow-covered e-tarnal hills is one of them

, or some such fool name, they call theirselves. They hitched the bub

Motor Rangers?" asked the other mounted

s righ

kid what can't talk straight?" as

exposing their hiding place. It tickled him immensely to

the matter of that all three of 'em are stuck up, psalm

e not so foolish,"

ed the other rider who had remained silent whil

h them," was the rejoinder. "Do you remember what I told yo

What o

the same bunch.

Do they travel with

ustached man who w

,000 and one of them has a gold mine in Lower Cal. Then, too

worth plu

th them even if we didn't get a thing out of it.

w why the outline of one of the riders had seemed familiar to him. The man was evidently none other than

wing his right to the mine, which the gang Hale Bradford had gathered about him was working. I can tell you, N

forearmed, Mr

were resumin

to the hotel and look around. Then I'll come back and tell you if the coast's clear. They've got their auto out in some sort of a

mory of my readers goes back that far, they will re

nts it might be a good thing to smash up th

nion, "we don't want any nosy kids around in

Jeffries, and I'll bet you that after to-night

h might, but for good fortune, have ca

ch we are writing the California mountains are covered with a growth, called in some localities tar weed. This plant gives off an irritating dust when it is shaken or otherwise disturbed, an

ed with all his might against his immediate inclination to sneeze,

oo-oo-

rt of a cannon, in the silent

t?" exclaimed Ed. Dayton

ng, and regarded his com

ut he could not find it. In the meantime, the boys, in an agony of apprehension, scarcely dared to

bird," grunted Ed.

f bird," was

sort of bird," thought Ding-

ody sneezin'," commented Ed. D

hem if there was," supple

m Ed.'s companion, which sent a chill to the hearts of th

dea," was the al

o run, and trust to hiding in the rocks and chaparral, or to leap up and try

n' late. You do as I say, and then in a while we'll all take

is the trio of rascals separated. Ed. Dayton and his companions ro

steps grew faint Nat

announced excitedly. "Come on, Joe! Shake a foo

oubting in his own mind that Nat had al

ain-side above him. If we ar

. "Say, young fellow, the next time you want to sneeze when we're in such a t

help it," sputtered D

the indignant Joe, "

k said that you could stop sneezing by pulling the

u did

y-yes

have wiggled your right big toe while yo