Bert Wilson's Twin Cylinder Racer

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Duffield J. W.. Bert Wilson's Twin Cylinder Racer

CHAPTER I. The Runaway Locomotive

CHAPTER II. The “Blue Streak”

CHAPTER III. From Coast to Coast

CHAPTER IV. A Flying Start

CHAPTER V. The Deserted Hut

CHAPTER VI. The Broken Dam

CHAPTER VII. A Kentucky Feud

CHAPTER VIII. The Forged Telegram

CHAPTER IX. In Deadly Peril

CHAPTER X. A Day of Disaster

CHAPTER XI. The Flaming Forest

CHAPTER XII. Racing an Airship

CHAPTER XIII. An Unseen Listener

CHAPTER XIV. The Outlaw Plot

CHAPTER XV. A Murderous Grip

CHAPTER XVI. Desperate Chances

CHAPTER XVII. The Wonderful City

CHAPTER XVIII. A Winning Fight

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“Isn’t it a beauty?” exclaimed Bert, as, a few days later, he swept up to a waiting group of friends and leaped from the saddle.

There was a unanimous assent as the boys crowded around the motorcycle, looking at it almost with the rapt intentness of worshippers at a shrine.

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“Sure thing,” answered Bert. “I don’t see why I shouldn’t. Commencement will be over by the eighth, and the race doesn’t start until the tenth. That will give me plenty of time to get into shape. As a matter of fact, I’m almost fit now, and Reddy is training me for two hours every afternoon. I’ve almost got down to my best weight already, and I’m going to take the rest off so slowly that I’ll be in the pink of condition when the race begins. Reddy knows me like a book and he says he never saw me in better form.”

“Of course,” he went on thoughtfully, “the game is new to me and I’m not at all sure of winning. But I think I have a chance. I’d like to win for the honor of it and because I hate to lose. And then, too, that purse of ten thousand dollars looks awfully good to me.”

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