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Updated: June 8, 2025
As speedily as possible, messages were sent to the Lanings and to Mrs. Stanhope, carrying the news of the girls' safety and the recovery of the missing houseboat. After that Paul Livingstone saw to it that Pick Loring, Hamp Gouch, and their accomplice, Sculley, were turned over to the proper authorities.
The Stanhopes and Lanings had come back, bringing their friends with them, and all had been surprised to find the Rovers absent. After remaining on the houseboat a couple of hours the friends had gone home again. "Something is wrong; I can see it in your looks, Dick," said Dora, as she came to him. "Sam, where did you get that hurt on your head?" questioned Grace, in alarm.
The Rovers did not forget the Lanings, nor were they forgotten by these old friends. "And now for home. Hurrah!" shouted Sam, on the way to Cedarville. "I must say I'm just a bit anxious to see the old place once more." "Yes, and see father, and Uncle Randolph and Aunt Martha," put in Dick.
"If he does that he'll get beaten. Father says the treasure belongs to the Stanhope estate and to nobody else." "No, he didn't say he was going to court about it, but he said he was bound to get hold of it some day." "I hope he doesn't try to get it by force," said Sam. "That would mean trouble for the Stanhopes and the Lanings." "The money is in the banks now, Sam," said Dick.
After reaching San Francisco once more, the Rover boys had returned to the East, while Dora Stanhope and the Lanings had gone to Santa Barbara, where Mrs. Stanhope was stopping for her health.
In this drama Tom and Larry acted the parts of two old maids who were taking boarders, while Dick, Sam, and eight others were the so-called boarders, or those looking for board. The play was filled with humorous situations, and the audience, in which were the Stanhopes and the Lanings, enjoyed it hugely.
The boys got a number of letters from home, and these brought news that the law case Tad Sobber had instituted against the Stanhopes and the Lanings was being pushed vigorously. Mr. Rover wrote that he felt certain the shyster lawyer Sobber had on the case was going to present a great mass of "evidence," no doubt manufactured for the occasion. "It's a shame!" cried Tom after hearing this.
"They didn't get the chance to rob us," put in Tom, and then the Rovers managed to change the subject. The Stanhopes and the Lanings did not dream that Dan Baxter and Lew Flapp had caused the trouble. Perhaps, in the light of later events, it would have been better had they been told the truth.
Stanhope, both for herself and Dora, and also a goodly amount in the hands of Mrs. Laning for herself and Grace and Nellie. The Stanhopes had always been fairly well off, but not so the Lanings. John Laning was a farmer, and this sudden change to riches bewildered him. "Why, mother," he said to his wife, "whatever will you and the gals do with the money?" "Several things, John," she answered.
"He has; and according to what father says, he is going to make all the trouble possible for the Stanhopes and the Lanings," "That's too bad," said Sam. "I'll read the letter," went on Dick, and proceeded to do so. In part the communication ran as follows: "You wrote that you knew about Sobber's call upon Mrs. Stanhope.
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