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And then, as she saw them, she gave a cry of joy and exclaimed: "Yes! They are the very same! Those are the two pieces missing from my set! Now it is complete! Oh, how thankful I am that I have the Pompret china set together again! Oh, thank you, children, thank you!" and she threw her arms about Nan and kissed her, while she shook hands with Bert, much to that young boy's relief.
"Rare china," muttered Nan, half under her breath. "What tramp is that, and what about Miss Pompret's dishes?" asked Daddy Bobbsey, as he took his cup of tea from Dinah. Then he had to hear the story of that afternoon's visit of Nan and Bert. "Oh, I guess Miss Pompret will never see her two china pieces again," said Mr. Bobbsey.
Bobbsey, having been out on lumber business, came home, he, too, said he thought the pieces belonged to Miss Pompret's set of rare china. "But there is only one sure way to tell," the twins' father said. "Miss Pompret must see them herself." The few remaining days the Bobbsey twins spent in Washington were filled with good times.
The children at least Nan and Bert were so eager to have Miss Pompret see the two dishes that they hardly ate any of the good things Dinah provided. They wanted to go at once and call on the dear, old-fashioned lady, but their father and mother made them wait. At last, however, when they had all rested a bit, Mr. Bobbsey took Nan and Bert with him and went to call on Miss Pompret.
"Oh, we haven't that much money!" cried Nan, much surprised. "That's why I say we must go slow," said Billy. "Now you leave this to me and Bert." "I think it would be a good idea," declared Nell. "All right! I will," agreed Nan. "But, oh, I do hope we can get those dishes for Miss Pompret." "And I hope we can get the reward of a hundred dollars," murmured Bert.
"Why, then," explained Miss Pompret, "you might take this letter to the post-office for me. It's very important, and I want it to go out on this mail, but I can't go to the post-office myself. If you Bobbsey twins were bigger I should ask you to take it. Tell me, is the other set of twins larger than you two?" "No'm; they're smaller," explained Nan.
"But I don't know that I'd like a goat," she added. "Do you really mean you'd pay a hundred dollars for two china dishes?" asked Nan, her eyes big with wonder. "Yes, my dear," said Miss Pompret. "Of course if they were just two ordinary dishes, such as these," and she pointed to some on a side table, "they would not be worth a hundred dollars.
"It would hardly be right for the children to have so much money," he said. "The Red Cross needs it for poor and starving children in other lands." "Very well," answered Miss Pompret. "But at least let me give them back the dollar and thirty-four cents they spent to get the dishes. That was their own spending money, I presume." "Yes," said Mr. Bobbsey, "it was.
"No, my china wasn't broken," said Miss Pompret. "In fact, there is a sort of mystery about it." "Oh, please tell me!" begged Nan. "I like nice dishes and I like stories." She and Bert looked at the closet of choice china dishes. Children though they were, they could see that the plates, cups, saucers and other dishes were not like the kind set on their table every day.
Those are Miss Pompret's missing dishes that she told us she'd give a hundred dollars to get back! And oh, Bert! we've got to go in there and buy that sugar bowl and cream pitcher, and we can take 'em back to Miss Pompret at Lakeport, and she'll give us a hundred dollars, and and " But Nan was so excited and out of breath that she could not say another word.
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