pupils at Hope Seminary, located not many miles from Brill. At the
college the Rovers made many friends, including Stanley Browne,
already introduced, and Will, otherwise known as "Spud," Jackson, a
lad who loved potatoes, and who also loved to tell big yarns.

A term at college had been followed by a trip down East, taken for a
peculiar reason, and then, while on a visit home, the three lads had
become the possessors of an up-to-date biplane, which they named the
Dartaway. In the biplane, as related in the volume before this, called
"The Rover Boys in the Air," our heroes made a somewhat spectacular
trip from the farm to the college campus, much to the amazement of
their fellow collegians and their instructors. Later they made a trip
through the air to Hope Seminary, and at that time Dick was delighted
to place upon Dora's finger a diamond engagement sing.

A short while later an alarming thing occurred. The boys were out in
the Dartaway when they met Grace on the road and learned that Dora and
Nellie had been abducted by Josiah Crabtree, Tad Sobber, and some of
their other old enemies. They gave chase in the biplane, and, after
several adventures, located the girls in a lonely mansion in the
country, where they were prisoners, in charge of Sobber's aunt The
boys at once went for the authorities, and, after something of a
fight, the rascals were made prisoners, and the girls were rescued and
taken back to the Seminary.

"You will appear against these scoundrels?" asked the sheriff, Jackson
Fells, of the Rover boys, as they were about to leave the sheriff's
office at Plankville.

"We'll appear all right enough," Tom had answered. "Why, Mr. Sheriff,