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Updated: June 26, 2025
"The Polydores are here to stay," she acknowledged in a calmness-of-despair voice. "They don't seem to be homebodies," I allowed. The children were not literary like the other productions of their profound parents, but were a band of robust, active youngsters unburdened with brains, excepting Ptolemy of soup plate fame.
Even the Polydores at long range, and under the ameliorating influence of stone fences, seemed like fine little fellows rather active and strenuous, to be sure, but only as all wholesome children should be. Silvia was relieved at the announcement of Ptolemy's safety, but very much disappointed that I did not succeed in interviewing Huldah and finding out something about domestic affairs.
In Which We Take Boarders Four weeks of unalloyed bliss and then the summer vacation times arrived, bringing joy to the heart of the Polydores and the teacher of the ungraded room, but deep gloom to the hearthside of the Wades. One misfortune always brings another.
"Say, those Polydores certainly have the punch and pep," he declared. "I'd like to have fetched the whole bunch along with me." "If you had," I replied dryly, "our life's friendship would have died on the spot." In Which Nothing Much Happens "Why Hope Haven?" asked Rob reflectively, when he had taken inventory of the possibilities of the resort.
"Because you know," interpolated Beth, with a consideration for the feelings of the young Polydores a consideration they had never before encountered "we wanted you to have a nice rest." Silvia looked quite penitent and remorseful for her seeming lack of appreciation of our combined efforts.
"She'll have enough of the Polydores by that time," I said to Rob on our way home. "Do you know," he said reflectively, "I like Ptolemy. There's the making of a man in him, if he has only half a chance. I didn't suppose your sister understood children so well or was so fond of them. She looked quite the little housewife, too."
She shall have charge of dear little Di and study the evolutions of the Polydores later." I approved this plan. So we wrote our letters and stealthily, but joyously, prepared for our getaway, leaving the house like thieves in the night and bearing the sleeping cherub, Diogenes. Silvia sighed in relief when we were aboard the train.
Evidently her courage had come up with the sun. I was greatly disturbed at the chance of her stumbling over one or more Polydores, and Rob didn't want to let the cat out of the bag until her article was written, as he believed that if the ghostly spell were broken, she would lose her "punch."
"Presently I saw a taxi stop before the house. "'That's him! exclaimed Ptolemy. "'Him who? I asked. "'Rob somebody stepdaddy's college chum. He wrote he was coming, and they thought they had postponed him. "With a sprint of speed the four Polydores surrounded your Mr. Rossiter, all talking at once. I came to the rescue, of course, and explained the situation, and we decided to follow you.
I related the details of my neighborly visit to Silvia, but her sense of humor was not stirred. It was entirely dominated by her dread of the young Polydores. "How many children are there?" she asked faintly. "More than the five you said you counted that first day?" "They seemed not so many as much.
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