Motor Matt's Make Up

his tongue. McGlory grabbed him and shook his po

or Matt?" cr

no s

ou happen

eet

rom the show grounds for wi

uth in a pinch, having been raised that way. But, while he might resort to a little harmless fi

l. Wily Bill jump from cal. My jump, too. Tumble all ovel load. Wily Bill lun fo' top-si

glish McGlory capture

ng Wily for?" demanded Burton.

ll equal to

low with Wily Bi

en enough to put you on Wily's trail, although I can't figure it out exactly. But you followed him, a

ee s

d they go?" de

fo' house with

g

ith green blinds? Now we're get

Motol Matt, go in house, too." Ping became oppressed with the awe aroused by the event next to be described, and his voice sank into a husky whisper. "M

d Burton. "He's talking throu

lain enough, though, that a house with green shutters is at the end of ou

anding up in the runabout and address

ut of the bushes and making ready to for

h, one leg over the saddl

show grounds for me, will you?" requested Burton. "I'm hungry to see

was the answer. "Anyhow, I guess I've helped yo

" went on Burton. "Take the ri

tt he could use the machine, and welcome. Now

led into a steady hum. A minute later the

retired from the rest of the pursuit, a street car from the lak

," muttered McGlory, w

rig back for me, and the rest of us will s

red Carl, running tow

l's confidence in Ping, was badly "

e runabout and take it back to the ground

mit McGlory, same as you," demu

er, Carl," interposed McG

ld not very well disobey such a pointblank order.

eem to have discovered a clue of

Barton. "Come with us, Twomley, a

Ping," orde

and then at Ping. Following this, he turned the rig the

nvestigators through the woods in the direction of the crossroad. As

ng in many important points, but its very incom

rossroad, Ping halted and indicate

ing the house a swift sizing, "t

e," answ

d Matt traile

l s

around, and couldn't see a

ivered. "When my makee

key and handed

tt and Wily Bill went in there, and di

d them," struck in Twomley,

boy made his way to the door, thrust the k

at had greeted Ping stared McGlory

tered Ping, drawing

essed into

the ones on the right. Do your bushwhacking, and then, if you don't

lted on the inside, and all the windows and blin

the same. Puzzled and bewildered, t

hey couldn't have gone through the rear door or any of the windows, without leaving them open

while Ping was nosing aroun

didn't have any call to keep quiet, and Ping would surel

d the kitchen. McGlory now loo

match which he held close to the floor showed footprints outline

g

"Open those shutters, you fellows! We want

e blinds on their screeching hinges. The sunlight, drifting

ed into the soot and left t

," declared Ping.

gh that pile of black stuff. One man wore shoes, and the other wore slippers. The slippers left marks a go

y crossed the kitchen into the hall, and then

y from the hall floor. In the angle formed by th

"It looks like we were up

ife from his pocket, opened it, and w