"Before he gets out you can be on your trip to Buffalo and the Great Lakes," said Dick to Dora. "And perhaps you can hide your whereabouts from him, so that he can't get at your mother, to try on his game again."
"I will certainly try to throw him off the track," answered the girl. "I never want to see him again."
Captain Putnam was anxious to learn how the trial had ended, and came from the academy on horseback to meet the boys.
"Well, it is something," he said, half-smiling. "But you are right, he deserved more."
"I knew he was no good," said Tom. "Knew it from the first time I met him, when he was head assistant here, and placed me under arrest for shooting off a fire-cracker at the gate."
At this Captain Putnam laughed outright.
"You have a good memory, Thomas, I must say! Well, you are square now, as you boys call it."
CHAPTER XII
WINTER DAYS AT PUTNAM HALL
After the trial of Josiah Crabtree the days flew by swiftly at the Hall. Bound to make a good showing, each of the Rover boys applied himself diligently to his studies, and all made rapid progress.