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TWICE-A-MONTH

WIDE-AWAKE

MAGAZINE

Edited by Burt L. Standish

    Volume IV  CONTENTS FOR JANUARY 10, 1916   Number 3




ONE NOVELETTE

  The Speedway of Fate    Franklin Pitt      1


TWO CONTINUED STORIES

  Frank Merriwell, Jr., At Fardale. From the leaves of Frank
    Merriwell’s notebook                                        33
    A Four-Part Story—Part Two.

  Trooper Stewart, Substitute      H. E. Williamson             58
    A Three-Part Story—Part Three.


  FIVE SHORT STORIES

  Skates, Skis, and a Saphead       William Wallace Cook         71
  The Basket-Ball Boss              Leslie W. Quirk              85
  Clem Frobisher’s Man-sized Job    Allan Hawkwood               99
  The Shock                         Grant Trask Reeves          111
  Cap’n Dan’s Son                   Bernard Teevan              119


  MISCELLANEOUS

  Some New Inventions                                             32
  Some Interesting Facts                                          84
  Entombed Miners Rescued                                        110
  Unique Names for Creeks                                        118
  Odd Bits of News                                               124
  Youngest University Student                                    128

  Applause                                                       125


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    TWICE-A-MONTH

    Wide-Awake

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    EDITED BY BURT L. STANDISH

    Vol. IV.      January 10, 1916.      No. 3.




The Speedway of Fate

By Franklin Pitt




CHAPTER I.

Quarter-Mile Bend.


REALLY there could be no question that the car had got away from her.
Stanley Downs, driving his high-powered Archimedes down the winding
mountain road, had noticed the girl eight or ten miles back, and had
admired the ease with which she managed the rakish six-cylinder in the
many difficult spots, where strength, as well as skill, was demanded to
keep the road.

She was a slim, bright-faced young woman. He knew that, because he had
had one good look at her pretty face as she swung around a “hairpin
turn” and passed him on the lower road, while he traveled to the bend
on the upper.

He had taken a chance in looking sideways while preparing to negotiate
the cruel bend with his own car. He should have kept his attention
straight ahead, without regard to any girl, pretty or otherwise, who
might be passing two hundred feet away, and who certainly was paying no
attention to him.

“That’s a Fanchon she’s driving, Karl,” remarked Stanley to his
chauffeur, who sat idly by his side. “It’s a new car, and I don’t
know whether it is dependable or not. It has speed, and the lines are
graceful and strong. But until a car has been well tried out, you never
know where a weakness will develop.”

“The Fanchon’s a good car,” pronounced Karl briefly.

“Glad you know that, Karl, because it—— Hello! What does that mean?”

Karl suddenly came to life, as, when they got around the bend, he, as
