"No you won't," retorted Dick very promptly. "You'll pay no more than you offered. Dave and I'll divide that between us."
"Not a cent for me!" propounded Darrin, with emphasis.
"If you don't share the reward evenly, I won't touch a cent of it either, Dave Darrin," rejoined Dick heatedly.
Dave tried to have his way, but his chum won. Mr. Macey made another effort to double the reward, but was overruled.
So young Prescott received the two hundred and fifty dollars in crisp, new bills, and as promptly turned half of the sum over to his chum.
Now that it was safely over with, it had not been a bad morning's work!
CHAPTER XIII
Dick Begins To Feel Old
Despite the strain of what they had gone through Dick and Dave led the Gridley boys through a fierce gridiron battle that same afternoon, and won again by a score of 13 to 5.
But the people of Gridley paid little heed to the score that day, or the next. The sensation that Dick and Dave had supplied was the talk of the town, to the exclusion of other topics relating to high School boys.