"He may hang around and get aboard of the first morning train." "Take me along with you," said Sam, and Dick agreed.

They got Aleck to drive them and took the fastest team the stable afforded.
But at the depot all was dark and deserted, and if Arnold Baxter was anywhere near he took good care not to show himself, nor was anything seen of him in Oak Run later on.
"He has left the neighborhood by some other way," said Randolph Rover, and his surmise was correct.
When the boys reached home again they found their parent sitting up in an easy-chair, with his forehead still bandaged.

The blows he had received were painful, but by no means serious, and when the doctor was called in he said the patient would speedily recover.
"But you had a narrow escape," said the doctor.

"Had you been struck a little harder your skull might have been broken." "Well, I don't think Arnold Baxter would have cared if he had broken my skull," answered Anderson Rover.

"He is a thoroughly bad man." It was broad daylight before a complete examination of the house was made, and then it was learned that Baxter had run away with some silver knives, forks, and spoons, some gold napkin rings, a silver and gold water pitcher, and half a dozen similar articles.