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  MOTOR MATT'S PERIL

  OR CASTAWAY IN THE BAHAMAS

  by

  STANLEY R. MATTHEWS

  The "Hawk" was doomed!As quickly as he could, Motor Mattmade ready to follow Carl and Dick.]

  Street & Smith,Publishers,New York.

  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. 12. NEW YORK, May 15, 1909. Price Five Cents.

  MOTOR MATT'S PERIL

  OR,

  Cast Away in the Bahamas.

  By the author of "MOTOR MATT."

  CONTENTS

  CHAPTER I. CARL AS BUTTINSKY. CHAPTER II. THE MOVING-PICTURE MAN MAKES A QUEER MOVE. CHAPTER III. WARM WORK AT THE "INLET." CHAPTER IV. PRISONERS ON A SUBMARINE. CHAPTER V. THROUGH THE TORPEDO TUBE. CHAPTER VI. THE CAPE TOWN MYSTERY. CHAPTER VII. OFF FOR THE BAHAMAS. CHAPTER VIII. AN ACCIDENT. CHAPTER IX. MATT AND HIS CHUMS GO IT ALONE. CHAPTER X. THE AIR SHIP SPRINGS A LEAK. CHAPTER XI. WRECKED! CHAPTER XII. LUCK--OR ILL-LUCK? CHAPTER XIII. A MOVE AND A COUNTERMOVE. CHAPTER XIV. MOTOR MATT'S SUCCESS. CHAPTER XV. A FEW SURPRISES. CHAPTER XVI. MATT TAKES TOWNSEND'S ADVICE. NIGHT WATCHES FOR BIG GAME. SPECIALISTS IN THE WOODS. MISSOURI WILLOW FARM. ANIMALS THAT DREAD RAIN.

  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.

  =Dick Ferral=, a Canadian boy who has served his time in the King's navy, and bobs up in the States where he falls into plots and counterplots, and comes near losing his life.

  =Archibald Townsend=, otherwise "Captain Nemo, Jr.," of the submarine boat _Grampus_, who proves himself a firm friend of Motor Matt.

  =Lattimer Jurgens=, an unscrupulous person who, for some time, has been at daggers drawn with Archibald Townsend.

  =Whistler=, an able lieutenant of Lat Jurgens.

  =Cassidy, Burke and Harris=, comprising the crew of the _Grampus_.

  "=The Man from Cape Town=," who does not appear in the story but whose influence is nevertheless made manifest.

  =McMillan and Holcomb=, police officers.