"Is that all?"
"Yes."
"Very well. Thank you," and Sam hung up the receiver.
"What's the news, Sam?" questioned Songbird, and when told he looked relieved. "Dick will know what to do."
"I know what I am going to do, Songbird. I am going right back to Brill and get ready to follow Tom."
"I supposed you'd do that. I'd like to go with you."
"I know it. But that won't be necessary—if Dick goes with me." Sam drew a deep breath. "I—I guess I'd better stop at Hope on the way back and let the girls know how matters stand," he added, soberly.
"I can go up to-morrow and tell them, Sam."
"No. I'd rather tell them myself," answered the youngest Rover. He knew exactly how Nellie and Grace would feel when he broke the news to them.
It was a very sober and thoughtful pair of boys that got in the carriage and started back to Brill by the way of Hope Seminary. Sam was laying his plans how to follow Tom in his wild trip West and Songbird was wondering how he could be of assistance to the Rovers. Several times the would-be poet started to quote some original verse, but each time cut himself short.