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  Motor Stories

  Thrilling Adventure Motor Fiction

  No. 6 Apr. 3, 1909

  Five Cents

  MOTOR MATT'S RED FLIER

  OR ON THE HIGH GEAR

  by

  STANLEY R. MATTHEWS

  Street & Smith,Publishers,New York.

  _"Leaf dot alone!" yelled Carl, floundering to get tothe girl's aid, "dot pelongs to Moder Matt!"_]

  Motor Stories

  Thrilling Adventure Motor Fiction

  _Issued Weekly. By subscription $2.50 per year. Entered according toAct of Congress in the year 1909, in the Office of the Librarian ofCongress, Washington, D. C., by_ STREET & SMITH, _79-89 Seventh Avenue,New York, N. Y._

  No. 6. NEW YORK, April 3, 1909. Price Five Cents.

  MOTOR MATT'S RED FLIER

  OR,

  ON THE HIGH GEAR.

  By the author of "MOTOR MATT."

  CONTENTS

  CHAPTER I. STRANDED "UNCLE TOMMERS." CHAPTER II. THE RED FLIER GETS A LOAD. CHAPTER III. THE STOLEN RUNABOUT. CHAPTER IV. THE COAT IN THE RUMBLE. CHAPTER V. MATT BEGINS A SEARCH. CHAPTER VI. LOSING THE BOX. CHAPTER VII. A MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCE. CHAPTER VIII. SPIRITED AWAY. CHAPTER IX. AN UNEXPECTED MEETING. CHAPTER X. A DARING PLAN. CHAPTER XI. ON THE ROAD. CHAPTER XII. A CLOSE CALL. CHAPTER XIII. CAR AGAINST CAR. CHAPTER XIV. DOWN THE MOUNTAIN. CHAPTER XV. MOTOR MATT'S TEN-STRIKE. CHAPTER XVI. MORE TROUBLE FOR THE "UNCLE TOMMERS." CHAPTER XVII. CONCLUSION. A SNOWBALL FIGHT. SECRETS OF TRICK SHOOTING. REELFOOT LAKE. A FLOATING SLUM. WILD HORSES OF NEVADA.

  CHARACTERS THAT APPEAR IN THIS STORY.

  =Matt King=, concerning whom there has always been a mystery--a lad of splendid athletic abilities, and never-failing nerve, who has won for himself, among the boys of the Western town, the popular name of "Mile-a-minute Matt."

  =Carl Pretzel=, a cheerful and rollicking German lad, who is led by a fortunate accident to hook up with Motor Matt in double harness.

  "=Legree=," a member of the stranded "Uncle Tom" Company, about whom something mysterious seems to hover.

  "=Little Eva=," who turns out to be other than appearances would seem to indicate.

  "=Eliza=," } "=Uncle Tom=," } other members of the unlucky road combination "=Topsy=," } helped by Motor Matt.

  =Brisco=, } a brace of reckless adventurers with whom Matt and his =Spangler=, } Dutch pard have a particularly exciting inning.

  =O'Grady=, an inn-keeper.

  =Lem Nugent=, the owner of the stolen runabout.

 
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