CHAPTER XVI
SOMETHING OF A CLUE
"Tad Sobber!"
The cry came simultaneously from all of the Rover boys.
"Yah, dot's so!" exclaimed Hans. "I remember him now. Vonce I vos ask Sobber vere he got dot sthone."
"If the stone belongs to Sobber—he must have been here!" gasped out Sam.
"Do you think he is around now?" asked Tom, and threw his eyes about the lawn, as if half expecting their enemy to show himself.
"No, he isn't here now—wish he was," an swered Dick, bitterly. "More than likely he is miles away by this time—and the Stanhope fortune with him."
"I can't understand this," said Fred. "Unless Sobber has been here, spying on you."
"Maybe he followed the Stanhopes here—to
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