CHAPTER XVII
A MISUNDERSTANDING
"Here's a letter from father—quite an important one, too," said Dick as he joined his brothers in one of the rooms several days later.
"What about?" questioned Sam, while Tom looked up from a book with interest.
"It's about Tad Sobber and that fortune from Treasure Isle," answered Dick.
"What! Has that rascal showed up again?" exclaimed Tom.
"He has; and according to what father says, he is going to make all the trouble possible for the Stanhopes and the Lanings."
"That's too bad," said Sam.
"I'll read the letter," went on Dick, and proceeded to do so. In part the communication ran as follows:
"You wrote that you knew about Sobber's call upon Mrs. Stanhope. Well, after the girls left for Hope Seminary, Sobber and a lawyer
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