em and
it looks as if you four boys will have decidedly the best claim."

Meantime Westcott, assisted by Feeney, who greeted the two lads
effusively, carried in Quinn to join his comrade under strict guard.

"Are you not entitled to that reward, Mr. McPherson?" asked Phil at
length.

"No, sir. Not if anyone else does more than we in apprehending them. It
looks now as if you four and perhaps Feeney and his folks will be
entitled to all there is in it."

It may be said here that after all was over, the boys insisted that the
Feeneys should share proportionately in the reward. It did Phil good to
see the delight which these humble, hard working folks felt in what the
third of that reward might do for them. They needed it and were glad to
get it besides being grateful to our boys for being so generous.

Three days later the Big Six rolled smoothly into Lannington once more.
Glad indeed were the Auto Boys to see again the dear home faces and
receive the sweet home greetings. "And also, and likewise," said Mr.
Paul Jones, "home cooking beats the world!"

A number of weeks later the boys read of Adam W. Kull being sentenced to
serve seven years in prison, while Grant Coster received a sentence of
two years. Thus vividly reminded of their adventures, the friends
renewed a former effort to learn how Scottie had happened to appear in
Lannington, their own home city. They could not, though it was evident
that the dog, always even humanly fond of automobiles, had followed some
car there.

Phil and Billy were now preparing to enter college. Dave was already
occupying a steady position in his father's shop and Paul was about to
take up engineering in a school near home. Slowly but surely the almost
unbroken companionship of years' duration was encroached upon by the
demands the days were bringing. The boys were growing older. But I know
there were still no pleasanter hours for any of them than when, on
holidays and of an evening, they sometimes met again at the little green
and yellow garage under the whispering elms.

THE END

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