information!" cried Andy gaily.

"He's what you can call a real live wire!" added his twin.

"Come back with those magazines, I tell you!" bawled the stand keeper,
shaking his fist at Asa Lemm. "Come back, I say!" And then he set off
on a run after the stage.

He could not catch up to the vehicle, but he did catch up to the end
of the wire, and as he stepped on this there was a tearing sound from
beyond, and away came the button from Asa Lemm's coat, bringing with
it a strip of cloth.

"Hurrah, he's got his magazines back!" exclaimed Randy.

"And a souvenir of Asa Lemm's coat to remember him by!" added his
brother.

Just as Andy said this a train came rolling into the station.

"I hope that is our train," cried Fred.

The boys ran around to the other side of the station and found out
from the conductor that the train which had come in was that for which
they had been waiting. They at once called to the girls; and all lost
no time in hurrying on board.

"Wait! I want to see the end of this!" cried Andy, and threw up a
window. He stuck out his head, and as the train rolled away from
Raymonton he was just in time to see Asa Lemm pulled from the step of
the auto-stage by the irate man from the newsstand. Then the former
Hall professor was tripped up and sent flat on his back in the dust of
the road.

CHAPTER XIV

BACK TO COLBY HALL

"Well, that is where we got back at Asa Lemm!" cried Randy, after all
of the Rovers had gazed out of the car windows as long as the scene
near the auto-stage remained in view.

"I'll wager that stand keeper is mad," said Jack.

"And what a beautiful coat old Lemm has, with the tail torn to
ribbons!" Fred added.

"Oh, I think you boys are simply dreadful!" cried Mary, but she smiled
as she spoke.

"Don't you think you were rather hard on the professor?" questioned
Martha dubiously.

"No, I don't!" answered Andy promptly. "He treated us as mean as dirt
while he was at Colby Hall. He was more than stern--he was thoroughly
unreasonable! That's why Colonel Colby discharged him."

"And please to remember how he backed up Slugger Brown's father on
Snowshoe Island," added Randy. "He was perfectly willing to swindle
old Barney Stevenson out of his property. He deserves no sympathy."

The remainder of the journey to Haven Point passed without special
incident. The boys and the girls had sent word ahead that they were
coming, and when they reached the town they found Bob