"They've Struck Oil!" Yelled Andy Excitedly

BY ARTHUR M. WINFIELD

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INTRODUCTION

My Dear Boys: This book is a complete story in itself, but forms the fifth volume in a line issued under the general title, "The Second Rover Boys Series for Young Americans."

As mentioned in some volumes of the first series, this line was started years ago with the publication of "The Rover Boys at School," "On the Ocean," and "In the Jungle," in which I introduced my readers to Dick, Tom, and Sam Rover and their relatives. The volumes of the first series related the doings of these three Rover boys while at Putnam Hall Military Academy, Brill College, and while on numerous outings.

Having acquired a good education, the three young men established themselves in business in New York and became married. Dick Rover was blessed with a son and a daughter, as was likewise his brother Sam, while Tom Rover became the proud father of twin boys. As the four lads were all of a decidedly lively disposition, it was thought best to send them to a boarding school, and in the first volume of the second series, entitled "The Rover Boys at Colby Hall," I related what happened to them while attending this institution.

From Colby Hall the scene was shifted to "Snowshoe Island," where the lads went for a mid-Winter outing. Then they came back to Colby Hall, and what happened to them at the annual encampment of the young cadets is related in the third volume, entitled "The Rover Boys Under Canvas."

When Winter was once more at hand the younger Rovers thought they would like to go on another outing with their chums, and in a volume entitled "The Rover Boys on a Hunt" I related how they came upon a mysterious house in the forest and uncovered a most unusual mystery.

In the present volume the scene is shifted from stirring doings at Colby Hall to still more stirring doings in the famous oil fields in the southern part of our country.

Once more I feel called upon to thank my numerous readers for the many nice things they have said about these "Rover Boys" books. I earnestly hope that the reading of the volumes will do them all good.

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CONTENTS

CHAPTER I Out in the Storm
CHAPTER II Who the Rover Boys Were
CHAPTER III To the Rescue
CHAPTER IV In the Gymnasium
CHAPTER V The Rival School
CHAPTER VI Playing Hixley High
CHAPTER VII News From Abroad
CHAPTER VIII The Joke on the Sneak
CHAPTER IX The Game with Longley
CHAPTER X A Glorious Victory
CHAPTER XI Bonfire Night
CHAPTER XII On Bluebell Island
CHAPTER XIII Werner's Attack
CHAPTER XIV Bound for Home
CHAPTER XV Back From France
CHAPTER XVI Dick Rover's Heroism
CHAPTER XVII The Great Victory Parade
CHAPTER XVIII Bound for Texas
CHAPTER XIX In the Land of Luck
CHAPTER XX Plotting Against Dick Rover
CHAPTER XXI Words and Blows
CHAPTER XXII Among the Oil Wells
CHAPTER XXIII A Queer Summons
CHAPTER XXIV Dick Rover's Revelation
CHAPTER XXV Davenport's Accusation
CHAPTER XXVI News of Ruth
CHAPTER XXVII Caught by the Enemy
CHAPTER XXVIII At the Franklin Place
CHAPTER XXIX Days of Anxiety
CHAPTER XXX The New Well—Conclusion

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