been bundled out in disgrace," wondered Tom.

"Oh, I don't know," grinned Slim. "You know they say every criminal is
drawn back to the scene of his crimes."

"If he has that feeling again, I don't think he will yield to it,"
laughed Lester. "I guess we've seen the last of Andy Shanks."

It was late when at last they got to bed and the Rushton boys had never
slept more soundly than they did that night.

And when the boys went home a little later they had the warmest kind of
greeting. Nothing was too good for them. Teddy saw his advantage, and
the youth struck while the iron was hot.

"You _are_ going to let us go with Bill Garwood to his ranch,
aren't you, Mother?" he asked coaxingly.

"I guess I'll have to," smiled his mother, while Mr. Rushton nodded
assent.

"Sure!" broke in Uncle Aaron, "and what's more I'll buy the railroad
tickets."

And at this the boys almost fainted.

"Say," asked Teddy, when they were alone, "won't we have a bully time
with Bill on the ranch?"

"We most certainly will," agreed Fred with emphasis.

And what glorious times they had in that wild western country, with its
wide sweep of plain and forest, its danger and its mystery, its bucking
bronchos and reckless cowboys will be told in our next volume, to be
entitled: "The Rushton Boys in the Saddle; or, The Ghost of the Plains."

"And the cowboys," exulted Teddy. "Whoopee!"

"Riding the mustangs and watching the round-ups," added Fred.

"And greasers and rustlers and Indians and maybe some shooting," said
Teddy, hopefully.

"S-sh," warned his brother, "If mother hears any talk of shooting, it's
all off."

"I don't mean men," explained Teddy, "but bears or panthers or
buffaloes----"

"Nothing doing with buffaloes," laughed Fred. "They've all been wiped
out long ago."

"Well, anyway," Teddy wound up, his eyes shining, "we're going to have
the most exciting time of our lives."

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