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"'Friends' is good, with Dick engaged to marry Dora and you as good as engaged to Nellie," snorted Sam "Precisely, and you and Grace making goo-goo eyes at each other," added Tom, with a wink at his younger brother. Then he quickly changed the subject. "Dick, do you think you can strike a straight course for Plankville?" "I'll try it," was the answer. "I don't think I'll go much out of the way."
Let us hope that the authorities will quickly recapture him." "Have you had any further word, sir?" asked Dick. "I had word at eleven o'clock, from the newspaper office. Up to that time he had not been located." "We wish to ask a favor," went on Dick, and spoke about the proposed trip to Plankville. "Very well, you may go, and in your biplane if you deem it safe," said the worthy doctor.
Bang! bang! bang! went the explosions, and soon the propellers were revolving swiftly, and then with a swoop the Dartaway ran over the campus on its wheels and suddenly arose in the air. A cheer went up, and the students threw up their caps. Then Dick swung around in a quarter circle and headed directly for Plankville.
"We thought you might come to-day," put in Nellie, as she beamed on Tom, and extended both hands. "I heard the machine first," declared Dora, and came straight to Dick, who did not hesitate to give her the hearty kiss to which he thought his engagement entitled him. "We have been to Plankville," came from Tom and Sam, in a breath.
They passed over several villages, the inhabitants gazing up at them in open-mouthed wonder, and finally came in sight of a big church spire that they knew belonged in Plankville. Then Dick slowed down the engine, and soon they floated down in an open field close to the main street and not a great distance from the sheriff's office and the jail.
Crabtree had agreed, if aided in his escape from the Plankville jail, to assist the brokers in making Anderson Rover a prisoner and keeping him such until he signed certain documents and until the time had passed when he could no longer take up the options which were so valuable to the Rovers and their friends.
"Let us walk around the town and see if we can learn anything," suggested his big brother. They walked down the main street of Plankville from end to end, questioning several people they knew. At last they got word that a mysterious automobile had passed through the town about midnight of the day Josiah Crabtree had broken from jail. But who had been in the touring car nobody could tell.
"More than likely the sheriff is out, hunting for Crabtree and the others," answered Dick. "But I'll tell you what we might do if the weather stays good," he added, suddenly. "Sail to Plankville in the Dartaway?" queried both of the others. "Yes, if Doctor Wallington will give us permission." "He ought to since we are so much interested in this case," returned Tom.
This fellow Japson aided Crabtree to escape from the Plankville jail and in return Crabtree is aiding these brokers in their efforts to get the best of father!" "If we can prove that, we ought to have the brokers arrested." "But we can't prove it, absolutely. But I am convinced that I am right. The office boy told me that Japson telephoned to Pelter that he could not come in.
"You will appear against these scoundrels?" asked the sheriff, Jackson Fells, of the Rover boys, as they were about to leave the sheriff's office at Plankville. "We'll appear all right enough," Tom had answered. "Why, Mr. Sheriff, you couldn't beat us away with a club!" And so it had been arranged that the Rover boys should appear in court against the evildoers whenever wanted.
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