"Then why didn't you go to law about it with them?"
"They stole all the evidence, so we couldn't do a thing in law. Do you wonder that I am down on them?"
"No, I don't. If I were you, I'd try to get my rights back."
"I'm going to get them back some day," answered Dan Baxter. "And I am going to square up with all the Rovers, too, mind that!"
CHAPTER XIII
CHIPS AND THE CIRCUS BILLS
It is now time that we return to Sam and find out how he fared after being so unexpectedly hurled into the river by Lew Flapp.
The youngest Rover was taken so completely off his guard that he could, for the moment, do nothing to save himself. Down he went and his yell was cut short by the waters closing over his head.
He was dazed and bewildered and swallowed some of the water almost before he was aware. But then his common-sense returned to him and he struggled to rise to the surface.
As he neared the top, the current carried him against a sharp rock. Instead of clutching this, he hit the rock with his head. The blow almost stunned him, and down he went once more, around the rock and along the river a distance of fully a hundred feet ere he again appeared.