She could just manage to hold Bert's sleeve and point at the
window of the second-hand shop.
At last Bert "woke up," as he said afterward. His eyes opened wider, and
he stared with all his might at what Nan was pointing toward. There,
surely enough, among some old candlesticks, a pair of andirons, a
bellows for blowing a fire, was a sugar bowl and cream pitcher. And it
needed only a glance to make Bert feel sure that the two pieces of china
were decorated just as were Miss Pompret's.
But there was something more than this. The sugar bowl was turned over
so that the bottom part was toward the street. And on the bottom,
plainly to be seen, was a circle of gold. Inside the circle was a
picture of some animal in blue, and Nan, at least, felt sure it was a
blue lion. As she had said, no letters could be seen, but they might be
there.
"Don't you see, Bert?" asked Nan, as her brother waited several seconds
before speaking. "Don't you see that those are Miss Pompret's dishes?"
"Well," admitted the Bobbsey lad, "they look like 'em."
"They surely are!" declared Nan. "Oh, I'm so excited! Let's go right in
and buy them. Then we'll get a hundred dollars!"
She darted away from Bert's side, and was about to move toward the door
of the shop when Billy caught her by the coat sleeve.
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