"It's a burning shame," Tom was saying, hotly. "You saved the country from disaster, and scarcely anyone knows it."
"Yes," asserted Dick, emphatically, "your name ought to be a household word all over the United States."
"Easy there, fellows," said Bert. "Anyone else could have done it. I simply had the chance and took it. It was sheer luck."
"No," cried Dick. "It was sheer pluck."
He had struck the keynote of his comrade's character. And, in Bert's later career, that quality of pluck persisted. In the field of sport it was soon to be as prominent as in the dashing adventure through which he had just come triumphant. How brilliantly it came to the fore in the exciting struggle that awaited him will be seen in "Bert Wilson's Twin-cylinder Racer."
The End