to do. Then Dick rushed to the side of the roadway, where some
water trickled along in a hollow, and brought some, using a collapsible
cup they carried when on a trip. With this they bathed Grace's face and
they forced a little water into her mouth, and soon she opened her eyes
and stared around her.

"Go away! Go away! Don't touch me!" she gasped.

"Hush, Grace, you are safe," answered Sam, gently.

"Oh, Sam! I forgot!" She struggled to her feet, he still supporting her.
"Did--did you find them? Did you bring them back?" she asked wildly.

"You mean Dora and Nellie?" asked Dick and Tom, in a breath.

"Yes! yes!"

"We don't know where they are. Tell us about it," went on Dick.

"Oh, it's terrible!" cried Grace, and now the tears began to course down
her cheeks. "We got a note--at least Dora did--stating you had had a
fall from the biplane and were hurt. The note was signed 'Tom,' and we
of course thought Tom had sent it. It said to keep the matter quiet but
to come without delay--down this road to the old white cottage. So the
three of us started off as soon as we could. Dora was so afraid it was
serious she ran nearly all the way, and Nellie and I ran, too. We had
thought you were at the cottage, but when we got there we didn't see
anybody. While we hunted around a big touring car, one of the kind with
a closed coach top, dashed up. There was a man running the car and
another man inside, a fellow who looked like a doctor. The driver asked
if we were the girls who had come to see Dick Rover, the aviator, and we
said yes. Then he said the car had been sent for us and for the doctor,
and for us to get in and he would take us to Dick Rover at once. We got
in, and then, before we knew it, the touring car was rushing along the
road at a great rate of speed. We asked the doctor about you, Dick, but
he said he hadn't seen you yet. Then we asked the driver, but he acted
so queer we began to get suspicious. Then, oh, wasn't it strange? Nellie
saw a card on the floor of the car, and picked it up, and it was Josiah
Crabtree's visiting card! She showed it to Dora and I, and Dora
screamed, and wanted to leap out of the car. But the doctor--if he was a
doctor--held her, and held Nellie, too. But I was too much for him. I
don't know how I did it, but, just as we were rounding a curve rather
slowly, I flung myself out of the door, and I landed in some bushes. I
got scratched a little, as you can see, but I wasn't hurt, and I star