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The boys said no more, but as soon as the chauffeur was paid, they set off through the rain. It was a disagreeable journey, and but little was said. All wondered what would be best to do when they reached the place for which they were bound. "I wish we had the sheriff and his posse with us, as we had when we rounded up those rascals at Plankville," said Tom.
The boys lost no time in preparing for the trip to Plankville. After a somewhat hasty lunch they put on their flying suits and then went down to where the Dartaway was housed, in one of the buildings attached to the gymnasium. "Looks to be all right," remarked Dick, after an inspection of the flying machine, and while Sam and Tom were filling the gasoline tank and the oil distributor.
"What!" ejaculated Dick, and his mind ran back to the jail at Plankville, and to what had been said about the man who had visited Josiah Crabtree. And then he thought of the mysterious automobile and its driver. "Yes, I know what you think, Dick and I think the same that that man was the one who aided Crabtree to escape from jail," said Sam. "What did the men say, Sam?"
"He may have escaped in that," declared Dick. "And if he did, that man who came to see him at the jail had the car," added Sam. "Just what I think," cried Tom. "Well, if he got away in an auto there is no use of our looking for him here," he added, with a sigh. Nevertheless, the boys hung around Plankville for an hour longer.
Then Crabtree, Sobber, and the others had been put under lock and key in the old-fashioned country jail; and there, for the time being, the matter had rested. "I wish we could learn more about Crabtree's escape," remarked Tom, as he and his brothers entered the main building of the college. "So do I," added Sam. "Can't we telephone over to Plankville, to Sheriff Fells?"
"There is a man who escaped from the jail at Plankville. He tried to get out of a garret window and had a fall. I guess his leg is broken." "If that's the case, he won't need much watching from me," replied the policeman, grimly. "The other two rascals who were with him got away, after hitting my brother with a footstool and hurting him quite badly. Here he is.
"Have you heard the news?" questioned their big brother, and he looked anxiously from Dora to her cousins. "What news?" cried Dora, quickly. "We have heard nothing unusual." "Josiah Crabtree broke out of the Plankville jail and ran away." "Oh, Dick!" and Dora grew suddenly pale. "Do you really mean it?" "When was this?" demanded Nellie. "Tell us all about it," supplemented Grace.
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