slow up here in these back counties."

"Never mind-- they will get what is coming to them sooner or later,"
was Sam's comment.

"Abduction is rather a serious offense."

"Right you are," answered Dick. "And I'll be glad to see Crabtree,
Sobber, and our other enemies behind the bars. Then they won't be able
to bother us any more."

"That will he the end of Sobber's efforts to annex the Stanhope
fortune," mused Sam. "How hard he did try to get it away from Mrs.
Stanhope and the girls!"

"I shouldn't have minded that had he used fair methods, Sam," returned
the big brother. "But when it came to stealing and abducting----"

"Hello, you fellows!" shouted a voice from behind the Rover boys.
"Plotting mischief?"

"Not just now, Stanley," answered Dick, as his college chum caught him
by the shoulder and swung him around playfully.

"Want to go for a row on the river?" asked Stanley Browne.

"Not just now, Stanley. I've got a lecture to attend, and this
afternoon we are going over to Hope in the biplane."

"Wish I had a flying machine," said the student, wistfully.