The Rover Boys in New York; Or, Saving Their Father's Honor

last of th

u hurt,

that a nar

d it would have be

one hand to his forehead, where a lump was rapidly

section of a bamboo stick-one which had supp

ren't closer to

car standing not a great distance beyond the scene of the collision. Already the train

the conductor. "How in the n

s the rays of a lantern revealed the Rover boys

answered

ody h

bad tumble and i

, did we?" questioned

e," answered Sam. "You

to land on the track

icker than we wanted to," explained Sam. "Then you came alon

hit anybody," said the en

, and of how Dick had been dragged out of the way. By this time the oldest Rover boy

onsulting his watch by the light of his lantern.

got to pay for the

inman, and then he gave the order to go ahead-afte

with this wreckage," he added, to his brothers. "We can drive d

nobody was seriously

l feel that wa

ton. On the way the conductor of the trai

shing the flying machine," he said. "You

ck, if you had halted the train," returned Di

know ab

bays alighted. The only other passenger to

n, pleasantly. He knew them by sig

" said Dick. "But we don't

's t

nd here to take us to Brill, and I

stable. He'll take you over to t

away and they found the proprietor on han

a rig over at the depot, to mee

it once, and earned two dollars and a half in two

get to Brill Col

t will cost you f

y we

am ready. The boys were glad enough to take it easy in th

n," remarked Professor Black

dent, Professor

d the instructor

got smashed u

rry to hear that

and a few scratc

the place that the Dartaway had been wrecked, and before they could get a

ou escaped," said Songbird, earnestly. He cher

student. "You can buy a new flying machine, yes, but you can't bu

further details of the disastrous flight. Docto

e flying alone after

r a while, at least,

ent a message to the girls and to their folks,

" said Dick. "And if we don't send wo

heets gave the accident a column or more and some city sheets took it up and made a "s

Sunday newspaper. "Looks as if we hit the smokestack of the locomotive and sailed

the biplane!" returned Tom. "Say, it's a wonder we didn

ss hours, that some gentlemen wished to see them. They went to

were in the-er-the flying machine smash-

answere

Rov

ichard

his is Doctor Slamper. We represent the railroad company, Mr

with a quiet smile, and point

n Doctor Slamper. "Not

didn't k

r. Rover! Feel pretty

able to

men are all right, of course,

mooth matters over, so that they would not put in a claim for personal injur

ined, and my back twisted, and I have a pain in one of my right teeth, and my brothers both got their arms wrenched, and one got his left big toe out of

d the doctor, in amazeme

as it should be, and when I hit my elbow I have the funniest sensation crawl down my shoulder blade ever was, and

r, falling back against a center tabl

u know that the planes of that machine were covered with the autographs of most of the big men of this country? Whenever we sailed around to visit our frie

because of the autographs on it? Preposterous! If you think the railroa

aphs back?" whined Tom. "Some of th

right Fogg. "You don't look to be knocked out-at l

obably they are-from the way this young man talks-little nervous disorder." And he poi

ur railroad disclaims all responsibility for this accident. But at the same time we-er-we want to do the right thing, you know-rather do that tha

offer?" que

ollars-one hundr

personal injurie

for ever

Dick, promptly, and with

ll not

know if our nerves are all right or not. Sometimes these things turn out worse than

ev

nk it

y of the train-it

and it broke down, you would have no right to run into it. The law might not hold you

yer?" queried Belri

y rights," return