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Rh of the rescue of Mrs. Stanhope, and of the recovery of the fortune. Then Mrs. Stanhope told how she had been lured from her home and abducted, and then placed in the care of Mrs. Sobber, and how she had managed to mail the postal card.

"They treated me kindly enough," she said. "But they would not let me have my liberty, and I think they told outsiders that I was insane."

"That is just what they did," answered Dick.

A general alarm was sent out for Sobber, Crabtree and the others. But they kept in the dark and were not captured.

"Oh, how glad I shall be to get back home!" murmured Mrs. Stanhope, when the return was begun. "It seems an age since I went away!"

"Dora will be glad to see you," answered Dick.

"I owe you and your brothers a great deal, Dick!" she went on earnestly. "You are all noble young men!" And this earnest praise made all of the Rover boys blush.

The return to Cedarville was a great event. Dora clasped her mother in her arms and laughed and wept by turns, and then threw herself into Dick's embrace.

"Oh, Dick! It was splendid!" she cried. "Oh, I shall never forget it, never!" And then she kissed him right in front of everybody.