"Is it a fire?"
"Oh, you and your fires!" laughed Nell, as she put her hands lovingly on
his shoulders. "Don't you ever think of anything else?"
"Oh, is it a fire?" asked Freddie again.
"No, there isn't any fire," answered Billy, laughing, as his sister Nell
was doing, at Freddie's funny ideas.
"But it's something!" insisted Flossie, who had, by this time, wiggled
herself to a place beside Freddie, and so near the window that she could
flatten her little nose against it.
"What is it you see, Nan?" asked Bert. "If it's more souvenirs I don't
believe we can buy any. My money is 'most gone."
"Oh, but we must get these even if we have to go home for more money!"
exclaimed Nan. "Look, Bert! Right near those old brass candlesticks. See
that sugar bowl and pitcher?"
"I see 'em!" answered Bert.
"Don't you know whose they are?" rapidly whispered Nan. "Look at the way
they're painted? And see! On the bottom of the sugar bowl is a blue
lion! I can't see the letters 'J. W.' but they must be there. Oh, Bert!
don't you know what this means? Can't you see? Those are Miss Pompret's
missing dishes that she told us she'd give a hundred dollars to get
back! And oh, Bert! we've got to go in there and buy that sugar bowl and
cream pitcher, and we can take 'em back to Miss Pompret at Lakeport, and
she'll give us a hundred dollars, and--and--"
But Nan was so excited and out of breath that she could not say another
word.
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