Suddenly the dark-
haired boy took hold of the sugar bowl and turned it over, spilling out
all the lumps.
"Why Bert! you shouldn't do that," exclaimed his father.
"I want to see what's on the bottom of this bowl," Bert said. "It looks
just like the one Miss Pompret lost, and if it's the same I'll get a
hundred dollars! Oh, look, it is the same! Nan, I've found her lost
sugar bowl!" cried Bert.
CHAPTER X
LOST
Several persons, dining at different tables, looked over to the one
where the Bobbseys were. They smiled as they heard Bert's excited voice
and saw him with the empty, overturned sugar bowl in his hand.
"Yes, this is the very one Miss Pompret lost!" Bert went on. "If we can
only find the milk pitcher now we'll have both pieces and we can get the
reward. Look at the pitcher, Nan, and see if it's got the dog--I mean
the lion--on as this has."
"Don't dare turn over the milk!" cried Mrs. Bobbsey, as Nan reached for
the pitcher. "Spilling the sugar was bad enough. Bert, how could you?"
"But, Mother, that's the only way I could tell if it was Miss
Pompret's!" said the boy, while Flossie and Freddie looked curiously at
the heap of square lumps of sugar where Bert had emptied them in the
middle of the table.
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