Nan is, too!"
"My, but you are getting in a hurry!" said Mr. Bobbsey. "We have only
just begun to talk of the West and here you are stopping school to
go."
"But what is it all about?" Bert went on. "Why do you have to go out
West, Daddy? Aren't you going to have the lumberyard any more?"
"Oh, indeed I am, and perhaps a larger one than before if things turn
out the way I expect," answered Mr. Bobbsey. "But here comes Nan," he
went on. "I think we might as well tell her and Bert all about it," he
said to his wife. "If we go out West Bert and Nan will have to make
believe they are almost grown up."
"What's it all about?" asked Nan, as she sat down on the steps beside
her brother. Grace and Nellie had gone home to help their mothers get
supper.
"Well, to begin at the beginning," said Mr. Bobbsey, "I had a letter
to-day from some lawyers out West. Children, your mother has been left
a cattle ranch and a lumber tract by a relative who died and made his
will in your mother's favor."
"A cattle ranch?" cried Nan.
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