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"Perhaps I will be some day," was Dick's answer. "Better get that check right in the bank!" cried Sam, when he and his brothers were alone. "That fellow may stop payment on it." "He can't stop a certified check, Sam. I'll put it in the school safe for the present. What we want to do is to look after the Dartaway. She may not be worth much, but what there is of her belongs to us." "Right you are.
But the Rovers remained firm, and in the end the clause concerning the wreckage was altered to show that the Dartaway must remain the boys' property. Then the three brothers signed the paper and it was duly witnessed by two teachers, and the certified check was handed to Dick. "Very sharp young man, you are," was Belright Fogg's comment, as he was about to leave. "You ought to be a lawyer."
"Boys, what do you say to a trip in the Dartaway this afternoon?" "Suits me, Sam," replied Tom Rover. "Providing the breeze doesn't get too strong," returned Dick Rover, as he put up his hand to feel the air. "Oh, I don't think it will blow too much," went on Sam Rover. "I don't mind some air." "But no more storms for me!" cried his brother Tom, with a shake of his head.
"It is, and if you want to use it to run down to Ashton with, take it," answered the other, readily. He had once been up in the Dartaway and was glad of a chance to pay the debt he thought he owed the Rovers. "Thanks very much, I'll use it," returned Dick. "Come on, then, and I'll make sure that it is all right."
Hopkins. She owned some land in Florida; but did not consider it of any value. It developed that it adjoined Mr. Seabury's hotel property and, as he wished it to enlarge his building, he purchased the lot for a goodly sum. The three boys, after the return of the Dartaway and Wanderer from the strange waters, had stopped for a week at Mr. Seabury's hotel, before journeying north.
"That's quite a sum, and Charlie will surely not ask as much as that for the hire of his boat." "Well, if he does we'll pay it," decided Jerry. "I want to cruise on the Pacific, and this seems to be the only way we can do it. We'll have a motor boat trip, even of the Dartaway is out of commission."
"We'll call in two of the teachers," answered Dick. The oldest Rover boy read the document over with care. It was all right, excepting that in it the railroad claimed the wreckage of the Dartaway absolutely. "Here, this comes out," cried Dick. "The wreckage belongs to us." At this there was another long discussion.
And then she playfully boxed his ear, at which he chased her around the biplane and gave her a hearty smack just below her own pretty ear. "Tom Rover!" she gasped. But, somehow, she looked pleased, nevertheless. "A11 in the family!" sang out the fun-loving Rover, coolly. "As the lady said when she kissed her cow." "Who is going to run the Dartaway back?" questioned Sam.
The Dartaway had a powerful motor, and once on the right trail the eldest Rover advanced his gasoline and spark, and they went rushing through the air at express-train speed. The boys were provided with face guards, so they did not mind this. They did not fly high, and so kept the railroad and other familiar objects fairly well in view.
They fairly fell into the bushes, and Dick went down with them. Then the express thundered up, the whistle shrieking loudly and the sparks flying from the wheels where the brakes gripped them. The locomotive struck the Dartaway, and the next instant the biplane was smashed to pieces, the broken parts flying in all directions! "That's the last of the Dartaway!" "Are you hurt, Dick?"
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