"I'd have given the two dollars if I'd had it.
Why, Miss Pompret will give us a hundred dollars for these two pieces."
"That's fifty dollars apiece!" exclaimed Nell. "It doesn't seem that
they could be worth that."
"Oh, but she wants them to make up her set," said Bert. "Just these two
pieces are missing. I wonder how they came to be in that second-hand
store?"
"Maybe the tramp who took them years ago brought them here and sold
them," suggested Nan. "But I don't suppose we'll ever really find out."
Eager and excited, the Bobbsey twins and their friends walked back
toward the hotel.
"Won't mother and father be surprised when they find we have the Pompret
china?" asked Nan of her brother.
"Yes," he answered, "I guess they will. But, oh, Nan! Just suppose!"
"Suppose what?" she asked, for Bert seemed worried over something.
"Suppose these aren't the right dishes, after all? S'posin' these aren't
the ones Miss Pompret wants?"
Chapter XXII
Happy Days
Nan Bobbsey was so surprised by what Bert said that she stood still in
the street and looked at her brother. Then she looked at the precious
package he was carrying.
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