While the excitement was still going on Bert came out to inform the crowd that both his father and mother needed quiet and medical attendance.

Bert begged the crowd to go away quietly.
Dick and Dave were standing before the gateway way while Editor Pollock answered some of the queries of the crowd.
"Great luck for you fellows, Prescott and Barren!" called some one in the crowd.

"You two will know what to do with a thousand dollars' reward!" Bert Dodge wheeled about like a flash, and facing Dave and Dick, shouted: "If that's what you two fellows are hanging around here for, you'd better clear out! Take it from me that you fellows will get no thousand dollars, or ten cents, out of our family!".