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Forbes to the Roses' on what was very evidently an important errand? For all present were eagerly interested, that much was clear. Mr. and Mrs. Rose were smiling, yet shaking their heads in uncertainty; Bernice was flushed and excited; and Mr. Forbes himself was apparently trying to persuade them to something he was proposing. This much Dolly gathered before she heard a word of the discussion.
All had to admit its truth, and the four girls looked from one to another and then at Mr. Forbes. He was studying them intently. Bernice and Dolly were crying. Alicia and Dotty were dry-eyed and angry-faced. If one of the four had a secret sense of guilt, it was difficult to guess which one it might be, for all were in a state of excitement and were well-nigh hysterical.
Forbes walked up and down the room as he often did, and then paused in front of the group of girls who were standing by the piano. "Sit down, girlies," he said; "Alicia and Bernice, sit on that sofa, please, you two D's on that one." Uncle Jeff was smiling, but still, there seemed to be an undercurrent of seriousness in his tone, that implied a special talk.
"Trouble? Of course not. Certainly not. No trouble at all, my dear. Why, you've seen the pictures here, look at them again ... see? Absolutely normal fetus yours, too, Bernice. Perfect! No malformations of any kind." "Yes, but for what age?" Bernice asked, pointedly. "Four months, say? I see, I was exposed to a course in embryology myself, once." "But that's the interesting part of it!"
"We could have a sort of reunion at our house," went on Bernice; "Muriel and you girls could come for a few days, and the two D's and I would be there, and we'd scare up a lot of fun." "'Deed we would! I'll surely come if it can be arranged. But I never know Dad's plans from one day to the next," Alicia said.
"How queer you are!" exclaimed Bernice; "why do you like to hear people talk fast?" "Not talk fast exactly, but say things suddenly, funny things, I mean." "I understand," said Mr. Forbes; "you mean bright at repartee and quick-witted." "Yes, sir, that's just what I do mean. And everything was so well planned and well arranged, oh, I enjoyed every minute of it." "Well, I didn't," said Bernice.
Bernice, grinning openly now, stopped Deston's floundering. "It's high time you fellows told each other the truth. Bobby and I let our back hair down long ago we were both tremendously surprised to know that both you boys are just as strongly psychic as we are. Perhaps even more so." "Oh ... so you get hunches, too?" Jones demanded. "So you'll have plenty of warning?" "All my life.
But then, for what reason was it that king Agrippa, who procured thee thy life when thou wast condemned to die by Vespian, and who bestowed so much riches upon thee, did twice afterward put thee in bonds, and as often obliged thee to run away from thy country, and, when he had once ordered thee to be put to death, he granted thee a pardon at the earnest desire of Bernice?
"Oh, Dotty, it's splendid! I can hardly believe it!" "Have you told Bernice?" "Not yet. Had to tell you first. When do we go?" "Next Tuesday, I think. Now, you tell Bernie, so she can write to her uncle that we accept." And then there was another jubilation over the telephone. "Fine!" cried Bernice, as she heard the news. "Lovely! I'd so much rather have you two girls than any others.
"Then Uncle will be cast down and upset all the rest of the time we're here." "Well, I can't help that. What do you suppose, Bernice, he asked us here for, anyway?" "You ask me that a hundred dozen times a day, 'Licia! I tell you I don't know, but I think it was only a whim. You know how queer he is. He forgets we're in this house from one evening to the next.
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