There was another pause.
"Where do you propose to go to?"
"Philadelphia, on a little business first, and then to Pittsburg, and to that place where they have their houseboat."
"And after that?"
"I'm going to be guided by circumstances. But you can rest assured of one thing, Flapp—I'll make those Rover boys wish they had never undertaken this trip."
Dan Baxter brought out a pocketbook well filled with bank bills and counted out five five-dollar bills.
"My, but you're rich!" cried the bully of Putnam Hall.
"Oh, I've got a good bit more than that," was the bragging answer. "I want you to know that once upon a time my father was as rich as the Rovers, and he would be as rich now if it wasn't that they cheated him out of his rights to a gold mine," went on Dan Baxter, bringing up something which has already been fully explained in "The Rover Boys Out West." The claim belonged to the Rovers, but the Baxters would never admit this.
"Did they really cheat him?" questioned Lew Flapp, with interest.
"They certainly did."