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"Something is on your mind, Dora," he said. "What is it?" "Dick, do you know that Tad Sobber is alive? That he escaped from that dreadful hurricane in West Indian waters?" "Yes, I know it. But I didn't know it until a few days ago, when Songbird Powell came to Brill He said he had met Sobber in Ithaca," "He came to see mamma." "I was afraid he would. What did he say?"
"I've got a plan," said Tom, as the party ahead came to a halt to make sure of the trail. "Can't we cut in somewhere and get ahead of them and then scare them back?" "Let's try it!" exclaimed Sam. "I am sure if we play ghosts, or something like that, we'll scare Tad Sobber out of his wits." "It's a risky thing to do," mused the eldest Rover. "We might get caught at it."
She told of how Sobber had argued, and she said he had affirmed that the Rovers had falsified matters so that the Stanhopes and the Lanings might benefit thereby. "What he says is absolutely untrue," said Dick. "Father went over those papers with care, and so did the lawyers, and the treasure belongs to you and the Lanings, and to nobody else."
"Songbird, are you sure of it?" demanded Dick. "Sure? Wasn't I talking to him!" "But but I thought he was lost in that hurricane, when the Josephine was wrecked." "No. It seems he escaped to a vessel bound for England; but his uncle, Sid Merrick, was lost, and so were most of the others. Sobber just got back from England came in on one of the ocean liners, so he told me."
"All right, if you don't appreciate my verses," returned the would-be poet with a sigh. "Well, to start with, Tad Sobber was well dressed, and looked as if he had all the money he needed. He wore a brown checkered suit, so evidently he hasn't gone into mourning for his uncle. He told me he had had a rough experience on the ocean during the hurricane, and he blames you Rovers for all his troubles."
"The matter of business must refer to that Sobber case," said Tom. "I don't know what else could take them home." "Maybe they have lost the case and must give the treasure up," said Sam. "In that case, Mr. Laning would have to take the girls away from such an expensive place as this." In a few minutes the lady teacher came back.
"Don't you know at all?" "They were going to look for some tramp steamer that was to be here. If they found her they were going to sail at once to some other island," answered Peter Slade. Having said so much, Peter Slade seemed more inclined to talk, one reason being that he wanted to get at the bottom of the mystery which had brought Tad Sobber and his uncle to that part of the globe.
"And I'll be glad to see Crabtree, Sobber, and our other enemies behind the bars. Then they won't be able to bother us any more." "That will he the end of Sobber's efforts to annex the Stanhope fortune," mused Sam. "How hard he did try to get it away from Mrs. Stanhope and the girls!" "I shouldn't have minded that had he used fair methods, Sam," returned the big brother.
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?"
He had been something of a bully, although not as bad as Tad Sobber. The boys had often played tricks on him and once Peter had gotten so angry he had left the school and never come back. "Let us go and speak to him," said Sam. "Maybe he won't speak, Sam. He was awful angry at us when he left the Hall." "If he doesn't want to speak he can do the other thing," said the youngest Rover.
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