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Miss Pompret sat up very straight, too, in her chair, and she, also, looked first from Nan and Bert to the wonderful china, which seemed made partly of egg shells, so fine it was and pretty.
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!
"Well, you Bobbsey twins are very lucky," said Miss Pompret, when Nan and Bert were at her house one early spring day. "You were very lucky about my china, and maybe you will be lucky about Mr. Hickson's sons. I hope he finds them. It is very sad to be old and to have no one in the world who really belongs to you. I hope you may be able to help him." As has been said, the spring had come.
"The children saw them in a second-hand store window, and went in and bought them. I hope, for your sake, they are the right pieces." "I can soon tell," said the old lady. "There is not another set like the ancient Pompret china in this country. Oh, I am so anxious!" Her thin, white hands, themselves almost like china, trembled as she unwrapped the pieces.
"That is the mark of the Waredon factory, where this china was made," went on Miss Pompret. "Only china made by Mr. Waredon can have this mark on it." "It looks like our dog Snap," said Bert. "Oh, no!" laughed Miss Pompret. "That is supposed to be the British lion. Mr.
"I should think you'd have to be very careful when you washed those dishes," remarked Nan, as she saw how light glowed through the side of one of the thin cups. "Oh, I am," answered Miss Pompret. "No one ever washes this set but me. My maid is very careful, but I would not allow her to touch a single piece. I don't use it very often.
They looked around the beautiful but old-fashioned room, noting the dark mahogany furniture, the cut glass on the side-board, and, over in one corner, a glass cupboard, through the clear doors of which could be seen some china dishes. Miss Pompret saw Nan looking at this set of china, and the elderly lady smiled as she said: "Isn't it beautiful?" "Yes," said Nan, softly. "I love pretty dishes."
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.
"Anyhow, we hope they're yours, and we paid the old man a dollar and thirty-four cents and " "You you found my sugar bowl and pitcher!" exclaimed Miss Pompret, and Mr. Bobbsey said, afterward, that she turned a little pale. "Really do you mean it after all these years?" "Well, they look like your dishes," said Mr. Bobbsey.
He hated being kissed. "Are you sure these are the two pieces from your set?" asked Mr. Bobbsey. "Positive," answered Miss Pompret. "See? Here is the blue lion in the circle of gold, and initials 'J. W. There can be no mistake. And now how did you find them?" Bert and Nan told, and related how Billy had bargained for the two pieces.
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