Perhaps some very sentimental things were said--especially between Dick and Dora--but if so, who can blame them?
The placing of that engagement ring on Dora's finger by Dick had made them both exceedingly happy.
During those days the boys took several short trips in the _Dartaway_, once landing in the field on the Dawson farm.

They sought out Dan Murdock and asked him if he had seen anything more of Koswell and Larkspur.
"Yes, I see 'em last week, but they got out of sight in the woods, and I couldn't find 'em," answered the farm hand.
"Around here ?" asked Dick.
"No, that was on the edge of the big woods back of Hope Seminary.

I was driving along, with some crates of eggs for the girls' college, when I see 'em, sitting on a fallen tree, smoking cigarettes.

I stopped my hosses and spoke to 'em, and then they up and run into the woods as fast as they could go! I looked for 'em, but I couldn't git on their track nohow." "What can they be doing up around Hope ?" murmured Sam.
"Maybe they are sweet on some of the girls," returned Tom.

"I know they used to go up there, when they attended Brill." "I hope, if they visit Hope, they don't speak to Dora and the others," said Dick, as his face clouded.
"Maybe we better warn the girls," said Sam.
"No, don't do that," said Tom.