Part 13 (1/2)

”I tried to plow up these bushes with uess my ankle is sprained, too”

”You can't ride that wheel any further,” announced Sah, for a few days at least”

It was a good quarter of an hour before To up

Then he found his ankle pained hi was out of the question

”I' to do,” he said ruefully

”I can't walk and I can't ride, and I don't know as I can stay here”

”Perhaps dick and I can carry you to Hopeton,” said Sa a small town just beyond the railroad tracks

”It will be a big job If you-- Here coive on rattled into sight, drawn by a pair of bony horses and driven by a tall, lank farmer

”Hullo, wot's the matter?” asked the farmer, as he drew rein

”Had a breakdown?”

”No, I've had a smash-up,” answered Tom

”My brother's ankle is sprained, and ould like to know if you can give him a lift to the next town,” put in dick ”We'll pay you for your trouble”

”That's all right--Seth dickerson is allers ready to aid a fellow-bein' in distress,” answered the faron alone?”

Tom could not, and the farmer and dick carried hied bicycle was placed in the rear of the turnout, and Seth dickerson drove off, while Sam and dick followed on their steeds of steel

”I see you air dressed in cadet uniforms,” remarked the farmer, as the party proceeded on its way ”Be you fellers from pornell school?”

”No; we come from Putna, I take it How is matters up to the school--larnin' a heap?”

”We are trying to learn all we have to”

”Had some trouble up thar, didn't ye? My wife's brother was a-tellin' me about it A darkey stole some money an' watches, an'

that like”

”They think he stole them,” said Tom

”We can hardly believe it”

”Why don't Captain Putnam hunt around them air pawnshops fer the watches?” went on Seth dickerson, after a pause