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Rh against Dave were exposed, and in sheer fright Nick Jasniff ran away and went to Europe.

Dave had been expecting right along to meet his father and his sister, and when they did not return to this country, and did not send word, he grew anxious, and started out to find them, as related in detail in "Dave Porter in the Far North." It was in Norway that Dave first saw his parent, a meeting as strange as it was affecting. After his trip to the Land of the Midnight Sun, our hero returned once again to school, as related in "Dave Porter and His Classmates."

Jasniff had not returned, but Link Merwell was still at hand, and likewise the lordly Nat Poole, and they did what they could to make our hero's life miserable. In the end Merwell did something that was particularly despicable and this caused Dave to take the law into his own hands and he gave the bully the thrashing that he well deserved. Merwell wanted to retaliate in some manner, but in the midst of his plotting, word of his wrong-doings reached the head of the school and he was ordered to pack up and leave, which he did in great rage.

While Dave was off hunting for his father and his sister, Laura Porter had been visiting her friend. Belle Endicott, at Mr. Endicott's ranch in the far west. Belle was anxious to meet her