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Oliver Wadsworth and Professor Potts remained at the village of Oakdale over night, and in the morning both called upon Dave again.

"Well, how do you feel after your victory of yesterday?" questioned the manufacturer.

"First-rate," answered Dave, with a warm smile.

"I suppose you don't feel like buckling down to your studies again, do you?"

"Oh, yes, sir."

"I knew it!" cried Caspar Potts. "Whatever Dave does, he does with all his heart and soul. Nothing can stop him." And he nodded his head over and over again.

Oliver Wadsworth looked at the boy keenly, and there was a second of silence.

"Dave, I've got something to tell you," said the gentleman, soberly. "I don't know if it is important or not, but it looks to me as if it might be. That sick man, Billy Dill, is recovering rapidly, and when I stopped to see him before I came here, he expressed a strong desire to see you." Rh