United States or Guernsey ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
"All right," returned Flossie; but it had been her principal play with her doll, Bernice, who had recovered from such a catalogue of ills that it reflected great credit on her medical man. "I'll be the maid," said Hazel, "and you give me the directions and I'll take the children to drive and to dancing-school and everywhere you tell me."
"Don't you want me to look in that room and see if there's a bed? 'Cause maybe we'll have to stay all night." "Don't look!" begged Flossie "Maybe maybe Mr. Blipper is in there!" "Mr. Blipper?" echoed Freddie. "What would he be doing here? He's at his merry-go-round." "No, he isn't at his merry-go-round," insisted Flossie.
Whatever has happened, your little ones are all right, ma'am; I'm sure of that." "I wish I could be!" sighed Mrs. Bobbsey. Several men volunteered to help Mr. Bobbsey look for the missing twins, and they went to the doors of nearby houses and rang the bells. But to all the answer was the same. Flossie and Freddie had not been seen.
Lady Dredlinton," he went on, "the person who opened the door of my sitting room last night was Miss Flossie Lane, a musical comedy actress sent there by your husband, who had followed you to the Milan. Your husband imagines that because you were in my apartments at such an unusual hour, he has cause for a divorce.
Slowly, as Jack had bidden him, he told the story of her sickness, dwelling long on Flossie Meredith's untiring devotion, but saying nothing of the services he had rendered, saying only that he was so glad he was there, as a gentleman friend was necessary at such a time and in such a place, where greed is the rule and not the exception.
"I wasn't thinking of holding off on my own account, but I've got someone else to consider now, you know. Ben " "Certainly, certainly!" Scotty's voice was eloquent of comprehension. "Throw the kiddie in too. He can play with Flossie; they're about of an age, and she'll be tickled to death to have him." Rankin looked at his friend a moment peculiarly.
"And we'll look after Flossie and Freddie," added Bert With this promise, Sam thought it would be all right to go down to the wreck and help the stranger look for the valise he had left near his seat in the car. While the two men were gone, the colored servant helping the other, the Bobbsey twins watched the railroad men starting to clear away the wreck.
"And there won't be any for a month, I guess!" added Bert. "Hurray!" "What do you mean?" asked his surprised mother. "No school for a month?" "No, Mother," added Nan "The steam boiler is broken and they can't heat our room. It got so cold the teacher sent us home." "An' we came home, too'" added Flossie. "We couldn't stay in our school 'cause our fingers were so cold!"
"How do you make candy?" inquired Freddie. "Oh, you just put some sugar and water on the stove in a tin dish," Alice answered, "and when it boils you pour it out on a buttered pan you butter the pan just as you butter a slice of bread." "Why do you butter the pan?" demanded Flossie. "So the candy won't stick to it. Candy is awful sticky.
Back to the shack they went, and Freddie was looking about for some matches in the old cabin when Flossie suddenly called out: "Hark! I hear something!" Mr. and Mrs. Bobbsey and the friends who had gone with them in Captain Craig's motor-boat to search for the runaway balloon, waited anxiously after they had run on the rocks for what was to happen next. "Is there any danger?" asked Mrs. Bobbsey.
Word Of The Day