Lieutenant Wingate's determination to visit his property in the Kentucky Mountains led the Overland Riders, as Grace Harlowe and her friends called themselves, to make those mountains the objective of their third vacation in the saddle.
After Tom Gray had finished his government survey, it was their purpose to proceed with him to Lieutenant Wingate's tract, where Tom was to make a survey and examination of it, so that Hippy might learn whether or not the property possessed any particular value.
"Hippy says his uncle took the property in payment of a debt, but that the uncle never had considered it to be worth much of anything," said Tom reflectively.

"From what little I know of that section of the country, I am inclined to agree with him.

However, we shall see when we get there." "Who knows but that Hippy may find still another fortune awaiting him there ?" suggested Grace.
Tom shook his head and smiled.
"It would be Hippy's luck, wouldn't it?
He doesn't need it; he already has more money than he knows what to do with.

Nor have I the slightest hope that he will find anything of value there.

The twenty-fifth, then, it is.