The Dick Hamilton Boys' Adventure by Howard R. Garis

Author:Howard R. Garis
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: boy;series;adventure;mystery;boys
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
Published: 2018-01-15T00:00:00+00:00

DICK HAMILTON’S TOURING CAR

OR, A YOUNG MILLIONAIRE’S RACE FOR A FORTUNE

PREFACE

My Dear Boys:

I am not going to detain you long over this, for, if you are anything like I was, when I was your age, you don’t want a lengthy introduction. But I just want a moment or so of your time, to explain something of the kind of story this is—a sort of bill of fare, as it were.

This is an account of how the young millionaire, Dick Hamilton, unexpectedly did a great service for a stranger, and how, later learning that this same stranger needed help in saving his fortune, Dick took strenuous action.

For excellence in his studies at the Kentfield Military Academy, Dick’s father gave him his choice of any automobile he wished. Dick found just the kind of a touring car he wanted—one large enough to sleep and live in, as he and his friends traveled about.

In this car, which Dick named the Last Word, the boys set out for San Francisco. What happened to them on the way, how they foiled the plans of Dick’s Uncle Ezra, how they came upon the strange man in the great salt desert, and how, in an exciting race, they tried to save him and blocked the plans of those who would take Mr. Wardell’s fortune from him—all this you may read of in this book.

It is the fifth volume of the “Dick Hamilton Series,” and that you will like it as well as you have the preceding ones is the sincere wish of your friend,

Howard R. Garis.

CHAPTER I

QUEER ACTIONS

“Here’s cheerful news—not!” exclaimed Dick Hamilton, as he tossed a letter on the bed of the room occupied by himself and his chum, Paul Drew, at the Kentfield Military Academy. “Nice, rich, juicy news, Paul!”

“What’s the matter, old man? Has some one sent you a bill?”

“No, but it’s a note from my Uncle Ezra Larabee, of Dankville, saying he’s coming to pay me a visit. Whew!”

“A visit from Uncle Ezra; eh? Isn’t he that sour-faced man who hates your bulldog, Grit, and who thinks football is a waste of time?”

“That’s the man, Paul. And he’s the same uncle who tried to kidnap me, to teach me how sinful it was to go off and have a good time on my yacht. Oh, he’s the limit!”

“But if there isn’t any love lost between you, why is he coming here, Dick? I think you told me he was about as near to being a miser as it’s possible to get, and it costs money to come here from Dankville.”

“Oh, he isn’t coming specially to see me—you can make up your mind to that, Paul. I’m only a side issue. Let’s see what he says,” and Dick took up the letter again. “‘Dear Nephew Richard,’” he read—“he never calls me anything but Richard, you know. ‘I hope you are doing well in your studies’—no, that isn’t it—‘I trust you have gotten rid of your savage dog’—no, it isn’t there—quiet, Grit!” he called to

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