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Updated: April 30, 2025
"Yes, if they saw a chance of getting the best Of us," answered his father. "I wish I had caught Tad Sobber," came from Tom, regretfully. "That might have done some good, but I doubt it," said Anderson Rover. "From what I have learned of this Sid Merrick he is a man bound to do as he sees fit, regardless of those around him.
"You won't dare to shoot us," blustered Merrick, but his voice had a trace of uncertainty in it. "Won't we?" answered Dick. "There is a warning for you!" And raising the pistol he carried he sent a shot over the heads of the other party. "They are shooting at us! We'll all be killed!" yelled Tad Sobber, who had come back during the conversation, and again he and Cuffer took to their heels.
The search for the treasure proved a long one, and Sid Merrick and Tad Sobber did all in their power to keep the wealth from falling into the hands of the Rovers and their friends. But the Rovers won out in the quest and sailed away with the treasure on board the steam yacht. The vessel of their enemies followed them, but a hurricane came up and the other ship was lost with nearly all on board.
All of the boys were curious to know what the former bully of Putnam Hall might have to say for himself and they strode over to the bench upon which Sobber and the man in brown were sitting. They came up behind the pair. "I can't give you any money, Cuffer," they heard Tad Sobber say. "You'll have to wait till my Uncle Sid gets here." "When will he get to New York?" "To morrow."
"I want to marry you, and take you some place where I know you'll be safe from such creatures as Crabtree and Sobber and Larkspur and I want the right to look after your mother, too." "Oh, Dick!" And she clung tightly to his arm. "Aren't you willing, Dora?" "Yes." She looked at him frankly" "Yes, Dick, whenever you say." "And your mother "
"Perhaps you might if I had you locked up." "My uncle is a good long way from New York." "I heard you tell that man your uncle would be in the city to-morrow." "I didn't say any such thing!" burst out Sobber, but his manner showed that he was very much disturbed. "You did say it. Where are you stopping?" "Nowhere I only got in a few hours ago." "Did you come here to meet Cuffer?"
Tad Sobber, to get even with the Rovers for a fancied injury, sent to the latter a box containing a live, poisonous snake. The snake got away and hid in Nick Pell's desk and Nick was bitten and for some time it was feared that he might die. He exposed Tad Sobber, and fearing arrest the bully ran away from the Hall.
While Tom was talking to Sobber the other Rover boys had followed Cuffer to the elevated railroad station. A train was just coming in and Cuffer bounded up the steps two at a time, with the boys not far behind. "Stop that man!" cried Dick, to the crowd coming from the train.
"It was the snake and nothing else put him in bed," answered Tom warmly. "And that is not all. You are in league with your uncle, who robbed my uncle of those traction company bonds." "I er I don't know anything about that matter," answered Sobber, hastily. "Well, I know all about it. You were with your uncle when he got away from us, and when he dropped the pocketbook containing the bonds."
The matter will now have to await the result of the case, which will probably be tried in court some months from now. "'I have learned that Sobber has little or no money, and that Martin Snodd has taken the case on speculation, Sobber to allow him half of whatever he gets out of it. Snodd's reputation is anything but good, so I am afraid he will have a lot of evidence manufactured to order.
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