Motor Matt's Clue; or, The Phantom Auto

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Motor Matt's Clue;
OR,
THE PHANTOM AUTO.
By the author of MOTOR MATT.
Matt King , concerning whom there has always been a mystery—a lad of splendid athletic abilities, and never-failing nerve, who has won for himself, among the boys of the Western town, the popular name of Mile-a-minute Matt. Carl Pretzel , a cheerful and rollicking German lad, who is led by a fortunate accident to hook up with Motor Matt in double harness. Uncle Jack , a wealthy Englishman, with ways and means of his own for accomplishing things, who leads a hermit's life in the wilds of New Mexico. Dick Ferral , a Canadian boy and a favorite of Uncle Jack; has served his time in the King's navy, and bobs up in New Mexico where he falls into plots and counter-plots, and comes near losing his life. Ralph Sercomb , a cousin of Dick Ferral, and whose sly, treacherous nature is responsible for Dick's troubles. Joe Mings , Harry Packard , Balt Finn , } three unscrupulous friends of Sercomb, all motor-drivers, and who come from Denver to help Sercomb in his nefarious plans.
A NIGHT MYSTERY.
Oh, py shiminy! Look at dere, vonce! Vat it iss, Matt? Br-r-r! I feel like I vould t'row some fits righdt on der shpot! It's a shpook, you bed you!
A strange event was going forward, there under the moon and stars of that New Mexico night. The wagon-road followed the base of a clifflike bank, and at the outer edge of the road there was a precipitous fall into Stygian darkness.
A second road entered the first through a narrow gully. A few yards beyond the point where the thoroughfares joined an automobile was halted, its twin acetylene lamps gleaming like the eyes of some fabled monster in the semigloom.
Two boys were on the front seat of the automobile, and one of them had leaned over and gripped the arm of the lad who had his hands on the steering-wheel. The eyes of the two in the car were staring ahead.