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Rh regular chauffeur's costume. On the back seat was Crabtree and a fellow who used to go to Putnam Hall—the fellow who tried to do the Stanhopes out of that fortune in court, Tad Sobber."

"Sobber and Crabtree!" burst out Dick. "They surely must be together in this deal!"

"It certainly looks like it," added Tom.

"I guess Crabtree is bound to have a part of the fortune, even if he can't marry Mrs. Stanhope," said Sam.

"Is Sobber after that fortune again?" questioned the young commercial traveler.

"We are afraid he already has it in his possession," answered Dick. "Now that you have been kind enough to tell your story, Dan, we'll tell ours." And he related the particulars of what had brought them away from the camp at the lake.

"I guess they are both after that fortune," said Dan, after listening to the recital. "It seems to me it all fits in. Sobber wanted to get hold of that cash. He couldn't do it by force, so he had to use cunning. He is not an overly-brilliant fellow, I take it, so he had to get somebody to aid him. In some manner he fell in with Josiah Crabtree. He knew that Crabtree was as smart as he