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They found Bert looking at the strange dog, who was standing in front of Snoop. And Snoop had her back arched up round; her tail was as large as a sausage, and her fur stuck out all sorts of ways, while she made a hissing sound like a steam radiator. "What's the matter, Bert?" asked Nan.
"If this is the last of it, I can take it here with our one lone cartridge." Her eyes were bent on him as if they would pierce him through. "If I save your life " still breathing fast, she hesitated for words "you won't trick me ever will you?" Steadily returning her appealing gaze, de Spain answered with deliberation. "Don't ever give me a chance to trick you, Nan."
Are we invited out this evening?" "The Thurstons' musicale. I thought you'd be interested in that." "Let me off, Nan, that's a good fellow," pleaded Keith, whose weariness had vanished. "I'd be delighted to go at any other time. But this is too rich. I must see what the gang has to say." "I suppose I could drop Ben Sansome a note," assented Nan doubtfully. "Do!
Little Inez opened the packages eagerly, chattering all the time to Jennie Albert about the good things the young folks from Washington Park had brought. But the sick girl, after her little show of interest in Nan's questioning, quickly fell back into a lethargic state. Nan whispered to Inez and asked her about the doctor she had seen for Jennie. "Is he a good one?" she asked the child.
When they told that kind but careworn woman what the child's aunt had said, she shook her head and spoke lugubriously. "She was probably drunk when she treated the child so. If she destroyed Inez basket and used the money Inez always saved back to buy a new supply of bouquets, she fair put the poor thing out o' business." "Oh, dear!" said Nan. "And we can't find her on the square." "Poor thing!
Tenney," she said, "I'm an awfully interfering person. I've come to ask you and your wife to let me do something." Tenney was staring at her with lacklustre eyes. In these latter days, the old mad spark in them had gone. "Your baby," said Nan, feeling her heart beat hard, "isn't right. I know places where such poor little children are made right if they can be. They're studied and looked after.
"And yet," he continued soberly, "love such as ours is not a light thing to be passed lightly by. To me, Nan Brent, you are sacred; to you, I yearn to be all things that the other man was not. I didn't realize until I entered unannounced and found you so desolate that I loved you.
This was the first time in his life that anybody had said "thank you" to him. He handed the baby over to Nan and, though he had said he was not hungry, finished the steak and a big piece of pie in addition and then the three left the restaurant. As they went out, Nan looked anxiously from side to side, fearing to see or be seen by the Leary woman. Tode noticed her troubled look and remarked,
Neither was there a confession made either to Mollie or Betty or any one else at camp that evening, since it was far pleasanter to appear cloaked in mystery; but Polly secured peace for herself by bringing back with her a large basket of peaches to glorify their supper party, and then later that evening quietly presented Betty with the amount in full advanced for Nan Graham's expenses.
"Well, Miss Pompret is a very nice lady," answered Mr. Bobbsey. "I am very glad that the children got those missing dishes back for her." "So am I. She has been greatly worried for years over them." Slowly the snow flakes drifted down, another storm following the first. It was the night before Christmas. "I wonder what we'll get?" murmured Nan as she and Bert went up to their rooms.
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