"No use of your doing that." "All right," answered the eldest Rover boy.
That night, when the others had gone to bed, the three Rover boys gathered in Dick's room to discuss further the news regarding Josiah Crabtree and Tad Sobber.
"Do you suppose it is possible that Sobber thinks to come here and blow the house up ?" queried Tom.
"He might be equal to it," answered Dick, soberly.

"We'll have to keep our eyes peeled, and, when we go back to Brill, we'll have to warn dad and Uncle Randolph." "Do you know, dad looked worried when he went away," put in Sam.
"I noticed it, Sam.

Did he say anything to you about business ?" "Not a word.

Why, do you think it's that ?" "There is some trouble out west--has been ever since there was a strike at that Golden Horseshoe mine in which dad invested so heavily last summer.

They had a strike, and now one crowd is trying to get the control from another crowd.