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"Oh, Nellie, please don't say that!" said Nan. She could scarcely speak the words. "Shall I go and tell Mrs. Lavine?" asked another girl who stood near. "No yes," answered Nan. She was so bewildered she scarcely knew what to say. "Oh, isn't it awful!" They gathered close around the fallen girl, but nobody dared to touch her. While they were there, and one had gone to tell Mrs.
Nan was counting while another girl named Grace Lavine jumped, Grace was a great jumper and had already passed forty when her mother called to her from the window. "Grace, don't jump so much. You'll get sick." "Oh, no, I won't," returned Grace. She was a headstrong girl and always wanted her own way. "But jumping gave you a headache only last week," continued Mrs. Lavine.
It was great fun, scrambling to see who would get a seat, and not be left without one, and finally there was but one chair left, while Grace Lavine and John Blake marched about. Mrs. Bobbsey kept playing quite some time, as the two went around and around that one chair. Everyone was laughing, wondering who would get a seat and so win the game, when, all at once, Mrs. Bobbsey stopped the music.
But Nan made him rouse up in a hurry, and after that when she closed the closet she made quite sure that Snoop was not inside. The party to be held that afternoon was at the home of Grace Lavine, the little girl who had fainted from so much rope jumping.
The school bell, next Monday morning, called to many rather unwilling children. The long vacation was over and class days had begun once more. The four Bobbseys went off together to the building, which was only a few blocks from their home. Mr. Tetlow was the principal, and there were half a dozen lady teachers. "Hello, Nan," greeted Grace Lavine. "May I sit with you this term?"
"A big black what bug?" asked Nan, ready to laugh. "No! a big black snake! I almost stepped on it." "A snake! Oh, dear!" screamed the girls. "Call Mr. Tetlow!" said Flossie. "He's got a book about snakes, and he'll know what to do." "Come on!" cried Nellie Parks. "I'm going to run!" "So am I!" added Grace Lavine. "Oh, it may chase us!"
The bridge over the stream seemed to have broken in the middle, just as the heavy truck got to that spot, and the auto's front wheels being lower than the rear ones, had slid the load of picnic merrymakers into a heap. "Oh! Oh!" screamed Grace Lavine. "What is going to happen?" "You'll be all right if you just keep quiet!" called the driver of the auto in a loud voice.
Their town playmates, who had come back from their vacations, called at the Bobbsey home, and made up games and all sorts of sports. "For," said Grace Lavine, with whom Nan sometimes played, "school will soon begin, and we want to have all the fun we can until then." "Let's jump rope," proposed Nan. "All right," agreed Grace. "Here comes Nellie Parks, and we'll see who can jump the most."
'They are from the conservatory of the Comte Meurien, at the château: I meant to have planted them to-day, said Julia. 'Who gave them to you? 'Mme Lavine, the femme de chambre. 'Ah, diable! I hope you have nothing else from that château? 'I have nothing else, replied Julia, blushing, and somewhat discomposed, as she remembered Victor.
"Why are you in such a hurry?" asked Grace Lavine of Nan. "We expect our cousins to-day," Nan answered. "Then we are going to get ready to go away in our houseboat." Surely enough, when the twins reached home, there the cousins were to greet them Dorothy and Harry, one from the seashore, and the other from the country. "Oh, but I'm SO glad to see you!" cried Nan, as she hugged and kissed Dorothy.
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