"Yes, if you don't bother daddy. Here is the letter."
A little later Nan and Bert were in their father's office. The clerks
knew the children and smiled at them, and the stenographer, who wrote
Mr. Bobbsey's letters on the clicking typewriter machine, took the twins
through her room into their father's private office.
As the door opened, Bert and Nan saw a strange man talking to Mr.
Bobbsey. But what interested them more than this was the sight of two
children--a boy and a girl about their own age--in their father's
private office. The boy and girl were sitting on chairs, looking at the
very same lumber books--those with pictures of big woods in them--that
Nan and Bert often looked at themselves.
Mr. Bobbsey glanced up as the door opened. He saw his two older twins,
and, smiling at them, said:
"Come in, Nan and Bert. I want you to meet these Washington children!"
CHAPTER IV
MISS POMPRET'S CHINA
Bert and Nan looked at one another in some surprise as they stood in the
door of their father's private office. What did he mean by saying that
they were to come in and meet the "Washington children?" Who were the
"Washington children?"
Nan and Bert were soon to know, for their father spoke again.
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