particulars?" asked Sa

he Doctor said, and didn't have time

her prisoners were who

g a man on the road and a bank cler

d we are interest

is bad enough for Crabtree to get away. I hope the

om Stanley Browne. "The head jailer will get a

learn that Crabtree got away," said Sam. "I wond

put in Songbird. "I think the newspape

y. "And just when we felt sure old Crabtree w

ied Sam. "Maybe be hypnotized one of the jailer

ce," answered Tom; and then all of the

new readers, however, let me state that the Rover boys were three in number, Dick being the oldest, fun-loving Tom coming next, and Sam being about a year younger

in the first volume of this series, called "The Rover Boys at School." At the Hall they had made a number of friends, including Songbird Powell and

ent to find their father, who had disappeared. Then, during vacation, the boys took a trip West, and then another trip on the G

inson Crusoe" for a while. Then they returned to this country, and, in a houseboat, sailed down the Ohio and the Mississippi Rivers. After leaving the Mississi

went back to the farm. But here something very unusua

the two Laning sisters, Nellie and Grace. Dora was the only daughter of Mrs. Stanhope, a widow, and soon she an

that he was trying to practically hypnotize Mrs. Stanhope into marrying him, so that he could get control of the fortune which the widow was holding in trust for Dora. They foiled th

ar way, and some outsiders claimed the treasure, which, at that time, was secreted in a spot among the West Indies called Treasure Is

t. At the same time Dora, Nellie, and Grace became pupils at Hope Seminary, located not many miles from Brill. At the college the Rovers made many friends,

the Dartaway. In the biplane, as related in the volume before this, called "The Rover Boys in the Air," our heroes made a somewhat spectacular trip from the farm to the college campus, much to the amaz

obber, and some of their other old enemies. They gave chase in the biplane, and, after several adventures, located the girls in a lonely mansion in the country, where they were prisoners, in

sheriff, Jackson Fells, of the Rover boys, as they w

en arranged that the Rover boys should appear in court against the evildoers whenever wanted. Then Crabtree, Sobber, and the o

escape," remarked Tom, as he and his brothe

't we telephone over to Pl

and the others," answered Dick. "But I'll tell you what w

n the Dartaway?" quer

allington will gi

e so much interested in

r," said the eldest Rover boy; and then all hurried to

ially, was very serious, and for a good reason. Something was worrying him grea

e going to lunch, and they immediately sought out Doc

"I can well imagine that you are worried-since he has caused you and your friends so m

y further word,

om the newspaper office. Up to th

t on Dick, and spoke about th

the worthy doctor. Secretly he was quite proud of the students' succe

ack until to-morrow," said Tom. "We

rip. Only be careful tha

d Dick, with a grim smile. "We don

ad of the college. "Before long I expe

up with us some day, Doct

wish-er-to see them more in general use firs

what hasty lunch they put on their flying suits and then went down to where

ection of the flying machine, and while Sam and Tom w

t order. As usual, as soon as the explosions of the motor were h

luck!" cri

get how to stop and sail to the N

murmured William Philander Tubb

t how to turn his machine down, and he went around and around in a circle for sixteen hours. And then he dro

murmured Wil

you where the pies made a dent in the street when the flying machine struck 'em." And th

ed into the driver's seat and took hold

the propellers were revolving swiftly, and then with a swoop the Dartaway ran over the campus on its wheels and suddenly arose in the a

with very little breeze, and that of the "steady" kind, not

ong," remarked Sam, when

wered Dick, grimly. "We have

at do yo

en caught yet me must see