It took a lot of argument, and more than one meeting, to make Dick & Co.

agree to accept anything whatever.
It was at last settled, however, Mr.Ripley urging upon the young men that they had no right to slight their own future prospects or education by refusing to "lay by" money to which they were honestly entitled, when it cane in the form of an earned reward from a citizen amply able to pay the reward.
So Dick and Dave received that thousand dollars, which, of course, they divided evenly.
In addition, each member of Dick & Co.

received one hundred dollars for his prompt and gallant work in rescuing Grace Dodge from death.
Of course Bert, away at private school with Bayliss, heard all about the rescue.

It is not a matter of record, however, that Bert ever wrote a letter thanking any member of Dick & Co.

for saving his sister..