the _Dartaway_ back," said Sam. "I can do that, if you
folks want to go by train, trolley and stage."

"It's a long-winded trip that way," answered Tom. "We'd have to make
five changes. I asked the sheriff about it."

"Do you boys want us to go in the biplane?" asked Nellie.

"Would you go?" asked Tom, eagerly.

"I will if Dora will."

"I'll go if Dick wishes it," said Dora, with a fond glance at the youth
who was some day to be her husband.

So it was settled that all should travel in the flying machine, and the
boys at once set to work to go over the biplane carefully. The start was
made an hour later, the sheriff and the hotel keeper and his wife waving
them a farewell. Sam ran the biplane, and, as was to be expected, Dora
sat close to Dick and Nellie close to Tom. There was no wind, only clear
sunshine, and after a little nervousness, the girls began to enjoy the
trip. Not a stop was made, all being too anxious to get to Hope.

Grace was on the watch for their return, and as the biplane came down
she ran to greet them, and there was a great jollification, the girls
laughing and crying by turns. The students and teachers crowded around,
wanting to know the particulars of what had happened. A little later
Songbird and Stanley appeared, having driven over from Brill to learn
if any word had been received from the Rovers.

"Glad you caught those rascals," was Songbird's comment. "And I hope
they send 'em all to prison for life!"

"They'll be sure to get pretty long terms," answered Sam.

Everybody has his or her story to tell, and that day there were but few
lessons both at Hope and at Brill. The Rovers were the heroes of the
occasion, and everybody wanted to congratulate them on what they had
done.

"Well, it was a pretty strenuous experience," said Dick to his friends.
He did not realize that still more strenuous happenings were in store
for him and his brothers. What they were, will be told in another
volume, to be entitled, "The Rover Boys in New York; Or, Saving Their
Father's Honor."

All of the girls had been too upset by what had happened to go on with
their studies, and it was thought best to let them go home for awhile
and take it easy. The boys, too, went home, to let their folks know all
the details of the happening.

"You did very well, boys!" cried their father, when he greeted them.
"Very well indeed! I am proud of you!"

"And the best of it is, all of those rascals are now where they ca