Part 46 (1/2)

”So will I,” careed

As a result of this interview the three ed They told some of their friends; and before the as up six of Carson Davenport's best workers had left the Spell clained up to work on the Franklin farm

CHAPTER XXIX

DAYS OF ANXIETY

”I wonder what Davenport will say when he finds thosehere?” remarked Fred

”I don't care what he says,” answered Jack

”Do you think he'll dare come over here and have it out with Uncle dick?” questioned Andy

”I don't think so,” answered his brother ”I believe behind it all he is afraid we'll have him arrested for the theft of those documents”

”If he really took them, what do you think he did with them?” came from Fred

”More than likely he destroyed the around loose, you know”

When Carson Davenport learned that six of his ry than ever

”They're going to do their best to underet square with theh if we strike oil here,” said Tate ”Those Rovers will feel sick enough if they learn we are h to talk abouta barrel of money,” came fro in very fast” He had been talking to a nuht the chances of getting oil from the Spell claim were very slim

”Oh, you just hold your horses, Jackson,” said Carson Davenport s down is going to be one of the biggest in this territory”

But though he spoke thus, Davenport did not believe what he said He, too, was beco a hich would prove dry However, he had the traits of a ga as there was the least possibility of success

As the days slipped by the work on both claied to hire a few men in and around Wichita Falls, and Davenport also picked up some workers to take the places of those who had deserted him

In those days the Rover boys became almost as enthusiastic as Jack's father, and their enthusiasm increased when Tom Rover and Sam Rover took a run down fro

”It certainly is a ga for oil,” reamble to me,” answered his brother Tom ”And I like the way that man Fitch talks” He had had an intervieith the oil expert which had pleased hireatly

On one occasion the Rover boys rode over froallery they had visited before, they ran er, but also Gabe Werner At the sight of theallery by the back way, but was stopped by the proprietor

”You haven't settled with allery rowled Werner, and thren a dollar bill Then he tried to pass out again, but before he could do so Randy and Fred caught and held the rascal

Cornered, Gabe Werner tried to put up a fight, and in this he got by far the worst of it He et in one or two blows, but then Randy knocked him down, and when he arose to his feet Fred landed on his ear so that the bully spun around and lurched heavily against the counter on which rested a nuuns

”You let ht up one of the guns and h to aiallery was too quick for hirasp

And then Gabe Werner did catch it Not only did Randy and Fred pounce upon him, but also Jack and Andy, and as a consequence, bruised and bleeding, the big bully staggered froallery and set off down the muddy street at the best speed he could couess we've settled him for a while,” panted Randy, when the encounter was over ”hello! where are Nappy and Slugger?”