lle Dick acquainted Dora wi

the girl. "I would not l

s back he urged the little mare along at top speed. She was in prime fett

e police station, for the town had at last taken

urger, sat in his office reading the Cedarvi

siness, eh?" he said,

ung man, sit d

am one of the cade

I presume? Anything connected w

sir

Captain Putnam seems t

bbery at the Hal

fight when they get celebrating. I know we had a fight o

the fire department," an

ey called in the doctor, ha! ha! So it's a fight

not a

said-" The fa

ed to see you

from Putnam Hall, and Cap

e give me a ch

anybody. Go on, but don't take too

ope's cottage, man brok

et us know at once? Or perhaps you

, although my brother a

ied to catch a burglar!

ed, and arose to

have to report, I'll take mys

ger stared at him

y," he gasped. "Ain't I listenin

tell you everything

What a remarkable boy! But it must b

Chief Burger interrupted him a score of times, but at last the tale

here this Josiah Crab

fter him hot-foote

ding in the woods

ad eight hours in

out an alarm to all

I will make a personal

t for Dan Baxter, too," said Dick, and he

open for Baxter, t

ng letter to his father, relating what had happened and repeating the wording of the

mare. But before going he entered the leading drug store, and here purchased a box of choice chocolates for Dora,

in the wash-house and the other finishing up the new barn. The money taken from the ban

of Josiah Crabtree, and went off shortly after giving Dora the chocolates, over which the girl was greatly pleased. He follo

stop! I want

d soon his youngest br

or it was easy to see that somethin

w where Tom is

l in an instant. "Didn't he ret

t off with you. I thought he was with you, until Dora

didn't return? W

the trou

ticulars, and uttered

s black, d

I don't like

e he fell in w

ith somebody

d Crabtree and sta

follow him all this time wit

ew turn of affairs. Both were greatly troubled, and D

only I knew he was

d up for himself in an even fight, b

e elder Rover. "There is no use of ou

n a systematic search until Sam discovered what he said were fresh footprints leading directly into the woo

uck it, Sam," said Dic

an stick to the t

lowed with ease. An hour's walking brought them to the rock wh

rtain," observed Dick, as they

e dark, Dick. It must have been aw

all tree which Josiah Crabtree had climbed in order to obtain a better vie

ed Sam. "But if he took to the water we'll los

as a slight bluff covered with a heavy growth of underbrush. To their

he pointed past the building "Somebody seems to b

us something of Crabtree," answered Sa

as they were able they pushed their w

, and presently the two bo

k what was going on around the fire, for the blaze

od spellbound. Sam also gave a look, and the sight th