curely. Dexter will never have any money if he has to earn
it. Go a few thousand miles from here, and, even if Dexter found out
where you were, he wouldn't be able to reach you. No--don't tell even us
where you are going."

Mrs. Dexter followed that very sensible advice. She and Myra vanished
completely one day not long after.

Before that good but timid woman went away, however, she did her best to
provide some suitable reward for the Grammar School boys who had proved
her staunchest friends and protectors, but they refused to consider any
reward.

Dexter, when at last at liberty, must have known of his wife's flights
to parts unknown, for he never revisited Gridley, and was not again
heard of there.

Dick Prescott's last and greatest adventure placed him securely on the
pinnacle of local fame. Where, in all the world, was there another
Grammar School boy who had been through as much, or shown as much
daring?

Even that shrewd and rather dryly spoken judge of boys and girls Old
Dut, took the latest happenings as the text for a little address to the
members of his class. He wound up by saying:

"In a few months more this present class will have passed on, some going
to High School and many more to their life employment. This present
class will be gone, and another class here in its place. Yet I believe I
can say in all truthfulness that I shall remember this present class
always with pride as the class containing the bravest and brightest
boys--and the finest girls--of any class that has been graduated from
the Central Grammar School."

It is not our purpose, however, to take leave of Dick Prescott and our
other young friends. There was too much yet ahead of them--absorbing
happenings that merit being recorded in other volumes. We shall meet
Dick, Dave, Greg, Tom and all of the chums once more in the next volume,
which is published under the title: "The Grammar School Boys Snowbound;
Or, Dick & Co. at Winter Sports." Here we shall find them amid stranger
and even more thrilling adventures.

The End

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