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

got your address from the policeman who pulled you out of the màlée and helped you to the drug store. Mighty queer he couldn't sp

ill. "Only dad I got in the world, and here

our address to

ob, and I don't know what I did. Reckon I must have given up the

upon which Hill was setting such store. Instinctively he had become suspicious,

father's handwriting,

I'm not familiar with his handwritin'. Did you read what he says about bein' well off? Gosh! Say, I'm li

le of your father's pen

and-" Hill paused abruptly. "Gee," he went on, reaching into the breast pocket of his c

sight, turned it over, and p

with his finger. "That's

however. Clancy compared the name signed to the letter with that on the photograph. It could be s

t is on the back of the photograph, or else that letter is a forgery. The same hand

otograph in the other, squinted up his cros

e same," he finally agr

that the lette

It can't be that dad wrote wha

id the writing on the back of

idn't, now, so you can bel

pin my faith to the writin' in the le

steered him along the line of least resistance right into the haven of his happiest desires.

etly, "you think you'll go to San

en that letter tells us right where to go?" de

d I'm not going to hit the iron trail again before I have a chance to get the cinders out of my eyes

y stock in this le

N

wrote it if it w

know who

e to-morrow. I want you to be along, and I'm waitin' over

y, "and then we'll sit in at th

some money, and asked that the message be put on the wires as soon as possible. After that he went to his room, got

hould spend the afternoon at one of the beaches. Hill, who was all wrapped up in San Diego, now that he had receiv

in San Diego, was scanning every face he passed for the beetling brow, retreating chin, Roman nose, and squint eye. H

a search for the other specifications. Once he was knocked down, and another time he was nearly

headed friend apart, "if you're convinced your father is in San Die

answered Hill lamely, "and s

eparate here and now. You act as though you had just escaped from a lunati

pictures taken on a couple of burros, and finally got into bathing suits and went into t

r plunge in the ocean, they went into a restaurant, and did ample jus

back in the car seat and showing his weariness. "We haven't done much

y own trail, Hiram

urned Hil

had explained. But Clancy realized that he was more contented in mind than he had been at any

lot to put new life into a fellow. I'm beginning to

ped at the counter to get the keys to their rooms, Clancy asked the clerk if there wa

he queried. "

you to come back," remarked

t before I open it. I'll bet something handsom

lice? What's he

e, Hiram, and

companion to a

, "we're about to decide whether we're going to C

asserted Hill. "Whatever

ram," went on Clancy. "You were asked to come

swered, consult

t that number in Q Street. If this reply to my message says that Upton Hill lives at that a

ur

dress, it's proof positive that your letter was a fake, and

the message says

ded yellow sheet, opened it out,

such street as 'Q' in the city. No such man a

R, Chief o

hink of that?"

ered the baffled Hill. "If it wasn't, I'd not

out San Diego an

r a street they haven't got in the town? Of cours