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It was a gag, and he started to place it in Anderson Rover's mouth, when the latter leaped up and began to struggle with all the force he could command. "Stop, I tell you!" cried Arnold Baxter softly. "Stop!" And then, catching up his club once more, he dealt Anderson Rover another blow, this time directly across the temple.
"That may well be done," said Sir Patrick Charteris, "and yet leave the Fair City rich enough to pay her debts to Henry Wynd, of which every man of us is a better judge than him self, who is blinded with an unavailing nicety, which men call modesty. And if the burgh be too poor for this, the provost will bear his share. The Rover's golden angels have not all taken flight yet."
But nobody had any appetite, and the fine repast prepared by the cook under Mrs. Rover's directions, was much of a failure. Once the telephone rang and the boys rushed to it. But the call was only a local one, of little consequence. "I think the best thing I can do will be to go over dad's private papers," said Dick, presently. "They may give me a clew of where to look for him in New York."
But it was evident the watcher was not expecting his game from that direction, for after a moment's silence he returned to the window through which he could see the trail. This time Jolly Roger was sure. Cassidy was again peering through the window, with his back toward him, and every muscle in the forest rover's body gathered for instant action.
Her prompt and friendly telegram, "Come at once," made him tell his wife that he was going to pack her off to the mountains, quick! "You can take him, old Rover's gone to heaven. Think you can start to-morrow?" He sat down beside her and took her hand in his warm young paw; the pity of her made him frown pity, and an intolerable annoyance at himself!
No, no, I will never marry her to one who would take her as so much ballast to her gold, and scorn her as the Rover's daughter." "But you would scorn a poor man for her?" "Blessed poverty!" exclaimed the sailor; "how would I hug it to my heart make it joint partner with my child in my affections, if it would only bring a fair unspotted name in exchange for the gold it might take away.
The Terran blocked with a shoulder to meet the Rover's knees, threw him back. Then Ross landed on top of the fighting crewman, trying to pin the fellow to earth and avoid that recklessly slashing blade. "Loketh! Vistur!" Ross shouted as he struggled. More of the Rovers appeared from between the buildings, bearing down on the limp aliens and the two fighting men.
From the desk he had taken a pocketbook containing three hundred dollars in cash, and from Anderson Rover's person his watch and chain, and a diamond stud. He had also tried to rob the unconscious man of his diamond ring, but as the ring would not come off had pried out the stone and taken that. "He is at his old tricks again," said Dick. "Evidently his term in prison has done him no good."
"Yes, and he wants more he wants the mate and the assistant engineer to help him to defeat Mr. Rover's plan to get the treasure. He told Mr. Carey and Mr. Bossermann that if they would aid him he was sure Sid Merrick would reward them handsomely." "And what did Carey and Bossermann say to that?" asked Songbird eagerly. "They said they'd like to talk it over with Sid Merrick."
Naturally, one of the first things to be done was to get a gauge on Red Rover's speed by a race with Blazing Star. It was only a race "for fun," and Jim gave his place to a lighter man; but he watched with an eagerness not easily expressed in words, and his heart swelled with joy yes, into his very throat when it was made clear, that, while Red Rover was good, Blazing Star was better.
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