“That fellow who was in the roadster! The man who sat alongside the driver!” ejaculated the young major. “Did you notice him?”
“I saw him give one look at us and then turn away,” answered Andy. “Who was he?”
“Unless I was greatly mistaken, it was Carson Davenport,” announced Jack, and his words filled his cousins with astonishment.
CHAPTER VI
SAM ROVER BRINGS NEWS
“Carson Davenport!” exclaimed Fred. “Why, Jack, you must be dreaming!”
“Carson Davenport is in jail. We saw him arrested ourselves,” added Randy.
“And he couldn’t even get bail—dad said so,” put in Andy.
“I don’t care, I’m almost certain that was Carson Davenport in that car,” answered Jack firmly.
As the readers of the volume entitled “The Rover Boys in the Land of Luck” know, Carson Davenport was the oil well promoter whom the boys had met on the border between Texas and Oklahoma. He was an unscrupulous individual who had robbed Jack’s father of some papers supposed to be of great value and later on had done everything he could to harm all of the Rovers. But one plot after another had been exposed, and in the end Carson Davenport had been arrested just at the time he was attempting to leave town with some money belonging to himself and to four of his partners. Two of his partners, Tate and Jackson, had stopped him, and a wordy quarrel had brought on the arrest of the three men. Each was tried for his wrongdoings and sentenced to a term in prison.