They wanted to go at once and call on the dear, old-fashioned
lady, but their father and mother made them wait.
At last, however, when they had all rested a bit, Mr. Bobbsey took Nan
and Bert with him and went to call on Miss Pompret. The dishes,
carefully washed by Mrs. Bobbsey, were carried along, wrapped in soft
paper.
"Oh, I am glad to see my little friends again," said Miss Pompret, as
she greeted Nan and Bert. "Did you have a nice time in Washington?"
"Yes'm," answered Bert. "And we brought you--"
"We found your missing sugar bowl and pitcher!" broke in Nan. "Anyhow,
we hope they're yours, and we paid the old man a dollar and thirty-four
cents and--"
"You--you found my sugar bowl and pitcher!" exclaimed Miss Pompret, and
Mr. Bobbsey said, afterward, that she turned a little pale. "Really do
you mean it--after all these years?"
"Well, they look like your dishes," said Mr. Bobbsey. "The children saw
them in a second-hand store window, and went in and bought them. I hope,
for your sake, they are the right pieces."
"I can soon tell," said the old lady. "There is not another set like the
ancient Pompret china in this country.
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