"If Nan or I can find them we'll get a lot of money, and
I could spend my part while I was here."
"Why Bert Bobbsey!" cried Nan, "you couldn't find Miss Pompret's things
here--in a store like this. They only sell new china, and hers would be
secondhand!"
"I know it," admitted Bert. "But there might be a sugar bowl and pitcher
just like hers here, even if they were new."
"Oh, no!" exclaimed Nan. "There couldn't be any dishes like Miss
Pompret's. She said there wasn't another set in this whole country."
"Well, I don't see 'em here, anyhow!" exclaimed Bert, after he had
looked over the china in the window. "I guess her things will never be
found."
"No, I guess not," agreed Billy, to whom, and his sister, Nan told the
story of the reward of one hundred dollars offered by Miss Pompret for
the return of her wonderful sugar bowl and cream pitcher, while Bert was
looking at the window display.
"Well, did you have a good time?" asked Mrs. Bobbsey, when her twins
came trooping back.
"Yes. And we saw the President!" cried Nan.
And then they told all about it.
The Bobbseys spent the rest of the day visiting their friends, the
Martins, and returned to their hotel in the evening.
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