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"Of course it would be nice to find Miss Pompret's dishes, and do her a favor, but I think it is out of the question after all these years that they have been lost." The weather was colder than on the day before, when Flossie and Freddie had been lost, and the sun shone fitfully from behind clouds. "I think we are going to have a snow storm," said Mr. Bobbsey, on their way to take the boat for Mt.
"And if she says those dishes aren't the ones you want, why we can take 'em back and the man will give us our money," said Billy. "Oh, he'd never do that!" declared Bert. "Well, we can ask him," went on the Washington lad. "Maybe the dishes are Miss Pompret's, after all," said Bert. "I was just s'posin'. And if they aren't, why we can give 'em to Dinah for souvenirs.
But you can imagine how happy the Bobbsey twins were when their father told them he was going to take them to Washington! The book about the Washington trip, telling of the mystery of Miss Pompret's china, comes just before the one you are now reading, and it was on their return from that capital city that the children were having fun in the snow.
"They got safely back to Washington, did they?" asked Mrs. Bobbsey. "Yes," her husband answered. "And they said they had had a very nice visit here. They are anxious to have us come to Washington to see them." "Can we go?" asked Nan. "Well, perhaps, some day," said her father. "I'd like to go now," murmured Bert. "Maybe we might see that tramp in Washington, and get back Miss Pompret's dishes."
"But, even if daddy had caught a tramp, it would hardly be the same man who took Miss Pompret's rare pieces of china the pitcher and sugar bowl. And if it had been anything like that, daddy would have told me over the telephone." "But what could the wonderful news be?" asked Nan. "Something too long to talk about until he gets home, I think," answered Mother Bobbsey.
What could Miss Pompret mean about a "mystery" connected with her set of china? Bert and Nan sat up very straight on the chairs in Miss Pompret's dining room, and looked first at her and then at the china closet with its shiny, glass doors.
Inside the circle was a picture of some animal in blue, and Nan, at least, felt sure it was a blue lion. As she had said, no letters could be seen, but they might be there. "Don't you see, Bert?" asked Nan, as her brother waited several seconds before speaking. "Don't you see that those are Miss Pompret's dishes?" "Well," admitted the Bobbsey lad, "they look like 'em."
These are the two pieces missing from her set. Her set is 'broken' as she calls it, if she doesn't have this sugar bowl and pitcher." "Yes, I remember your telling me about Miss Pompret's reward," said Billy. "But you'd better go a bit slow." "Maybe somebody else'll buy 'em!" exclaimed Nan.
And it needed only a glance to make Bert feel sure that the two pieces of china were decorated just as were Miss Pompret's. But there was something more than this. The sugar bowl was turned over so that the bottom part was toward the street. And on the bottom, plainly to be seen, was a circle of gold.
S'posin' these aren't the ones Miss Pompret wants?" Happy Days Nan Bobbsey was so surprised by what Bert said that she stood still in the street and looked at her brother. Then she looked at the precious package he was carrying. "Bert Bobbsey!" she exclaimed, "these MUST be the same as Miss Pompret's!
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