Dinah and Sam have their rooms there, but there is another
room for Mr. Hickson. So he will be like part of the family, and I
want you children to be kind to him, as he has had trouble."
"I like him!" declared Bert.
"So do I," said Nan.
"Come, children," said their mother, "it is time to go to school; and
there goes Mr. Hickson to work in daddy's lumberyard!"
CHAPTER V
NEWS FROM THE WEST
The Bobbsey twins looked from the window and saw Hiram Hickson walking
through the yard on his way from the garage. He had slept all night in
the comfortable room in the former stable, where Dinah and Sam also
lived.
As the old man passed he saw Flossie and Freddie and Bert and Nan
looking from the window at him. He smiled up at the children, and
waved his hand to them.
"He looks a little like Uncle Daniel, doesn't he?" remarked Bert.
"Yes," agreed Nan. "Only his hair is whiter. I guess he's had lots of
troubles."
"Maybe about his two sons," Bert went on, as the old man passed from
sight toward the lumberyard.
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