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Updated: June 28, 2025
Girls seem not to mind saying things that we don't say. She put her arms round Albert-next-door's uncle's neck and said 'We're very, very sorry. We didn't think about his mother. You see we try very hard not to think about other people's mothers because Just then we heard Father's key in the door and Albert-next-door's uncle kissed Alice and put her down, and we all went down to meet Father.
Oswald told him not to talk such tommy-rot because the Indian was a relation, so of course he couldn't do anything dishonourable. And Dora said it was all right any way, because she had washed up the spoons and forks herself and counted them, and they were all there, and she had put them into their wash-leather bag, and taken them back to Albert-next-door's Mother.
I was not sure about the last part, but Dicky was certain he had seen it in the paper, so I suppose it must have been all right. We let H. O. take the letter; it was only fair, as it was his blood it was written with, and told him to leave it next door for Mrs Morrison. H. O. came back quite quickly, and Albert-next-door's uncle came with him. 'What is all this, Albert? he cried.
Also by a strange and unfortunate chance I haven't the money about me. Couldn't you take less? We said perhaps we could. 'Say eightpence, suggested Albert-next-door's uncle, 'which is all the small change I happen to have on my person. 'Thank you very much, said Alice as he held it out; 'but are you sure you can spare it? Because really it was only play. 'Quite sure.
And now we are to go on living in the big house on the Heath, and it is very jolly. Mrs Leslie often comes to see us, and our own Robber and Albert-next-door's uncle. The Indian Uncle likes him because he has been in India too and is brown; but our Uncle does not like Albert-next-door. He says he is a muff. And I am to go to Rugby, and so are Noel and H. O., and perhaps to Balliol afterwards.
We would have dug him out all right enough, in time, but he screamed so we were afraid the police would come, so Dicky climbed over the wall, to tell the cook there to tell Albert-next-door's uncle he had been buried by mistake, and to come and help dig him out. Dicky was a long time gone.
I wish Albert-next-door's uncle would come treasure-seeking with us regularly; he must have very sharp eyes: for Dora says she was looking just the minute before at the very place where the second half-crown was picked up from, and she never saw it. The next thing that happened to us was very interesting. It was as real as the half-crowns not just pretending.
'Alas, alas, my nephew! Do I find you the prisoner of a desperate band of brigands? 'Bandits, said H. O; 'you know it says bandits. 'I beg your pardon, gentlemen, said Albert-next-door's uncle, 'bandits it is, of course. This, Albert, is the direct result of the pursuit of the guy on an occasion when your doting mother had expressly warned you to forgo the pleasures of the chase.
I give it up to you. But she didn't, and we did it together. We let Albert-next-door be sub-editor, because he had hurt his foot with a nail in his boot that gathered. When it was done Albert-next-door's uncle had it copied for us in typewriting, and we sent copies to all our friends, and then of course there was no one left that we could ask to buy it. We did not think of that until too late.
Dora is rather like grown-ups in that way; she does not seem to understand that when you want a thing you do want it, and that you don't wish to wait, even a minute. So we went and asked Albert-next-door's uncle. He was pegging away at one of the rotten novels he has to write to make his living, but he said we weren't interrupting him at all.
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