"I don't really see how we
can take you children West with us. But the surprise is this. I am
going to ask Aunt Emeline to come and stay with you, to keep house for
you while your father and I are away. Aunt Emeline will come."
"Oh, Aunt Emeline!" gasped Nan.
"Aunt Emeline!" cried Bert. "Why she--she--"
Then he stopped short. He knew what he had been going to say was not
polite.
"Aunt Emeline will be very kind to you," went on Mrs. Bobbsey. "I will
go in and write to her now, asking her to come."
"And I must go in and telephone," said Mr. Bobbsey. "If I am to go
West I shall have a lot of work to do to get ready."
Mr. and Mrs. Bobbsey entered the house, leaving Nan and Bert sitting
out on the steps. For a moment or two the Bobbsey twins said nothing.
They could hear Flossie and Freddie in the front yard laughing
together as they played their games. Then Bert looked at Nan.
"Aunt Emeline!" he said, in a strange voice.
"Aunt Emeline!" responded Nan, and she sighed.
"I'll have to wipe my feet three times every time I come into the
house once!" went on Bert, in a grumbly voice.
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