there Is to get. No Scotchman is going to cheat Theodore Alden out of what's his. Soon's I'd made up my mind to that, I drove over to Olmsted and made arrangements to sail from New York on Saturday." "Saturday? Why that's only three days off!" protested Mrs. Alden. "Well, it'll only take a night and part of a day to get to New York. That'll give you a day and a half to get ready, ma." The thought of a trip to Scotland delighted Mrs. Alden, and she immediately began to plan how she could get the boys, her husband and herself ready in such a short space of time. But Larry and Tom showed no signs of enthusiasm. Noticing their silence, their father exclaimed: "Don't you boys want to go? I never knew you so quiet before when a trip was mentioned." "But the ball game with Husted is on Saturday," said Larry, giving voice to the thought uppermost in his mind. Then, as though he realized that it was foolish to compare a trip to Scotland with a game of baseball, he added: "Besides, Tom and I were planning--that is, we were going to ask you if we couldn't go out to Tolopah and spend the summer with Horace and Bill Wilder on their ranch." With this announcement of a plan which the brothers had discussed over and over, wondering how they could bring it about, the boys anxiously watched their father's face. "So that's how the wind blows, eh?" he commented. "Well, ma, what do you say? Shall we take the boys with us or let them go to the ranch?" With her quiet mother's eye Mrs. Alden caught the appeal on her sons' faces and after a short deliberation replied: "I think they'd be better off with the Wilders--that is, if they'd like to have the boys visit them." "Hooray! hooray!" cried the boys together. "We can telegraph and ask Mr. Wilder tonight," said Larry. "Can we go to Bramley and send the message, father?" "You can telephone the message to the station and the operator will send it." And while the boys puzzled over the wording of the telegram, their father re-read his letter from Scotland. "I've got the telegram ready," Tom exclaimed presently. "Listen." And picking
