The huge beast towered above Motor Matt like a mountain, but the king of the motor boys held his ground.

MOTOR STORIES

THRILLING
ADVENTURE
MOTOR
FICTION
NO. 28
SEPT. 4, 1909.
FIVE
CENTS
MOTOR MATT'S
"SHORT CIRCUIT"
or THE MAHOUT'S
VOW
by The Author
of "Motor Matt"
Street & Smith
Publishers
New York

MOTOR STORIES
THRILLING ADVENTUREMOTOR FICTION

Issued Weekly. By subscription $2.50 per year. Copyright, 1909, by Street & Smith, 79-89 Seventh Avenue, New York, N. Y.

No. 28.NEW YORK, September 4, 1909.Price Five Cents.

Motor Matt's "Short=circuit"

OR,

THE MAHOUT'S VOW.


By the author of "MOTOR MATT."



CONTENTS

CHAPTER I. THE SERPENT CHARMER.
CHAPTER II. A BAD ELEPHANT.
CHAPTER III. BURTON'S LUCK.
CHAPTER IV. MOTOR MATT'S COURAGE.
CHAPTER V. DHONDARAM'S EXCUSE.
CHAPTER VI. ROBBERY.
CHAPTER VII. BETWEEN THE WAGONS.
CHAPTER VIII. A PEG TO HANG SUSPICIONS ON.
CHAPTER IX. A WAITING GAME.
CHAPTER X. A TRICK AT THE START.
CHAPTER XI. IN THE AIR WITH A COBRA.
CHAPTER XII. A SCIENTIFIC FACT.
CHAPTER XIII. PING ON THE WRONG TRACK.
CHAPTER XIV. FACING A TRAITOR.
CHAPTER XV. MEETING THE HINDOO.
CHAPTER XVI. A BIT OF A BACKSET.
ON THE BAHAMA REEFS.
THE STORY OF A WILD GOOSE.