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"Until Bert and I talk this over," went on Billy, who, though he was not much older than Nan, seemed to be, perhaps because he had lived in a large city all his life. "You don't want to rush in and buy those dishes so quick." "Why not?" demanded Nan. "If I don't get 'em somebody else may, and you know Miss Pompret offered a reward of a hundred dollars.
"You might have a play party with them," Billy went on. If Miss Pompret could have heard him then I feel sure she would have fainted, or had what Dinah would call "a cat in a fit." "You want those dishes?" asked the old man, as he reached over and lifted the sugar bowl and pitcher from his window. "Ach! them is a great bargain. I let you have them cheap. And see, not a chip or a crack on 'em.
"Are you children just getting home from school?" asked Mrs. Bobbsey. "Were you kept in for doing something wrong?" "Oh, no'm!" exclaimed Nan. "We went to see Miss Pompret." "And she's going to give us a hundred dollars if we find two of her dishes!" exclaimed Bert. "My! What's all this?" asked his mother, laughing. "'Tisn't dishes!
Eager and excited, the Bobbsey twins and their friends walked back toward the hotel. "Won't mother and father be surprised when they find we have the Pompret china?" asked Nan of her brother. "Yes," he answered, "I guess they will. But, oh, Nan! Just suppose!" "Suppose what?" she asked, for Bert seemed worried over something. "Suppose these aren't the right dishes, after all?
However," she concluded with a sigh, "I don't suppose you'll ever find them. The tramp must have broken them many long years ago. I'll never see them again." "Did you know the tramp's name?" asked Bert. "Bless you, of course not!" laughed Miss Pompret. "Tramps hardly ever tell their names, and when they do, they don't give the right one. No, I'm sure I'll never see my beautiful dishes again.
Bobbsey shook his head, "this sugar bowl has a lion marked on the bottom, it is true, but it isn't the same kind that is on Miss Pompret's fine china. This tableware is made in Trenton, New Jersey, and it is new it isn't as old as that Miss Pompret showed you. Now please pick up the sugar, and don't act so quickly again."
"There's a lot of it, though," added Bert, as he saw a number of shelves covered with the rare plates, cups and saucers. "Yes, but the sugar bowl and cream pitcher are missing," went on Miss Pompret, with a shake of her white head. "They were beautiful. But, alas! they are missing." And she sighed deeply. "Where are they?" asked Nan.
"She looks kind of funny." "That's 'cause she isn't married," returned Nan. "Some folks call her an old maid, but I don't think she's very old, even if her hair is white. Her face looks nice." "Yes, but she looks kind of worried now," said Bert. "That's the way mother looks when she's worried." They were in front of the house now, and could see Miss Pompret quite plainly.
"A a hundred dollars!" exclaimed Bert. "Yes, my boy. If some one would get me that sugar bowl and pitcher, with the mark of the lion in a golden circle, and the initials 'J' at the top and 'W' at the bottom, I would willingly pay one hundred dollars," said Miss Pompret. "A a whole hundred dollars!" gasped Bert. "What a lot of money!"
Only when some old and dear friends come to see me is the Pompret china used. And then I am sorry to say, I can not use the whole set." "Why not?" asked Bert. "Are you afraid they'll break it?" "Oh no," and Miss Pompret smiled. "I'm not afraid of that. But you see I haven't the whole set, so I can't show it all. One of the sorrows of my life is that part of my beautiful set of china is missing."
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