Owen Clancy's Happy Trail; Or, The Motor Wizard in California

establishment was in Hill Street, and he believed in omens. Incidentally, too, he preferred the Ren

y of the Renfrew House. The lobby was crowded, bell hops were hustling

ram Hill. The clerk, who had curly hair, and parted it squarely in th

f that guy's?"

knowledge

ghty glad yo

hy

d needs a keeper. About every

y gri

s he don

reak out 'most any minute. You

" Clancy looked in the direction from which the yell came and sa

cried the clerk. "W

motion. He found a fat man pounding a dent out of th

ed the fat man. "I don'

the aggrieved gentleman, st

u was my dad,"

ught to be arrested for that, anyhow. I refuse to

n, making sure that his watch, pocketbo

neck," explained Hiram, "was wh

t make any more bobbles around me, or there'll

ncy elbowed his way to Hill's

Hiram?"

sight of you is good for sore eyes!

n more'n a friend,"

he one who had spoken. Clancy grabbed his arm, and drew

ith you, Hiram?" the

like. Ever since I piped off dad in that automobile last Saturday mornin' I haven't been ab

nerves, Hiram, or you'll be in

the sho

long in f

that there telegram of mine in person, and if

tell you I'd help you find your father if

-hu

ays try to p

Gerald Wynn, Bur

N

teen thou' is

out that. You say you're hot on the t

ly he told how he had disrupted the dragon, and he described other events that ha

im somehow, and I hung to it all the while my wits was woolgatherin' an

Chinese dragon, and a runaway monkey into a small-sized riot and not get a little fun out of it.

Clancy, wiping his eyes. "You say you found somethin

. Here

ts and drew forth an oblong square of pa

n, Catalina Island, California." Then in the lower left-hand corner, were

t of this, Hiram?" t

ke out of it?"

to the man in the automobile–to the

y solemn Alf

s card, it proves that the man is J

is business c

o you

rown o' that Stetson, and them letters was

suitably

tunatus Syndicate?" he inquired. "Thos

led out o' five hundred dollars by Gerald Wynn. Well, I heard about this Fortunatus Syndicate while I was in the place. Some A

ith it, Hiram? That doesn'

yndicate just because I found that there card under the sweatband of his Stetson. What do you all

that the best move is to go across to Cat

n the papers," remarked Hill. "We c

ow

unicate with Hiram Hill, Renfrew House, City.' And then we could put in another, like this: 'Found–One black Stetson, initials "U. H." in crown. Picked

th Lopez, Hiram, or he wouldn't be h

ckon

o to the island and hunt up Lopez, there's a chance of ou

're right,

posed father didn't seem very enthusiastic about meeti

ross eye

a hull lot of excitement, and I'll gamble dad didn't have time to get the r

eep a straight face. "The trail seems to be a pret

and restrain him. The tow-headed chap had suddenl

t seems to be built on the same lines of the photograft, bu

id a bell boy, coming across t

and then sank into a chair while he read the communication. Pr

nd, if I'd only give him time enough. The trail's a short one, Clancy, and it leads to San Diego