FLYING FOR FAME AND FORTUNE.
By the author of "MOTOR MATT."
[TABLE OF CONTENTS]
[CHAPTER I. WANTED: A MAN OF NERVE.]
[CHAPTER II. FOILING A SCOUNDREL.]
[CHAPTER III. MATT MAKES AN INVESTMENT.]
[CHAPTER IV. MATT EXPLAINS TO M'GLORY.]
[CHAPTER V. PING AND THE BEAR.]
[CHAPTER VI. A NEW VENTURE.]
[CHAPTER VII. A PARTNER IN VILLAINY.]
[CHAPTER VIII. MATT SHIFTS HIS PLANS.]
[CHAPTER IX. DODGING TROUBLE.]
[CHAPTER X. BLANKED.]
[CHAPTER XI. SIWASH SHOWS HIS TEETH—AND HIS HEELS.]
[CHAPTER XII. "UNCLE SAM" TAKES HOLD.]
[CHAPTER XIII. ON THE WING.]
[CHAPTER XIV. DASTARDLY WORK.]
[CHAPTER XV. THE GOVERNMENT TRIAL.]
[CHAPTER XVI. FAME—AND A LITTLE FORTUNE.]
[TRICKED BY TWO.]
[IDAHO TO FEED ELKS.]
[NOISY AVIANS.]
[FISH THAT CANNOT SWIM.]
[CHARACTERS THAT APPEAR IN THIS STORY.]
Matt King, otherwise Motor Matt.
Joe McGlory, a young cowboy who proves himself a lad of worth and character, and whose eccentricities are all on the humorous side. A good chum to tie to—a point Motor Matt is quick to perceive.
Ping Pong, a Chinese boy who insists on working for Motor Matt, and who contrives to make himself valuable, perhaps invaluable.
Mrs. Traquair, wife of the inventor, Harry Traquair, who lost his life by a fall from an aëroplane of his own invention.
Amos Murgatroyd, a mortgage shark who gets the Traquairs in his clutches and becomes a bitter enemy of Motor Matt.
Siwash Charley, a ruffian who becomes the tool of Murgatroyd in his desperate attempts to keep Matt from flying the Traquair aëroplane in the government trials.
Lieutenant Cameron, an officer in the Signal Corps, U. S. A., who proves to be the cousin of an old friend of Matt, and who nearly loses his life when the aëroplane is tested.
Mr. Black, a friendly real estate man of Jamestown, N. D., who owns an automobile which proves of good service to the king of the motor boys.
Sergeant O'Hara, a good soldier, but who indulges in a game of cards at an inopportune moment.
Benner, post trader at Fort Totten, a bluff person who falls into a trap laid by Siwash Charley.
Jake, a teamster for Benner, who uses a blacksnake whip in a novel, but effective way.