Bobbsey took the letter to read for himself.
"Then I'm sure I don't know what we're going to do," he said. "All our
plans are made for going out West to look after the lumber tract and
the cattle ranch. If Aunt Emeline can't come to stay with the
children, what are we going to do?"
CHAPTER VII
HAPPY DAYS
Mr. Bobbsey sat looking at Aunt Emeline's letter, reading parts of it
over again. Mrs. Bobbsey watched her husband. The Bobbsey twins looked
at their father and mother. A great hope was beginning to come into
the hearts of Bert and Nan.
As for Flossie and Freddie, they were rather too small to know what it
was all about, but they realized that something had happened that did
not happen every day.
"What's the matter, Mommie?" asked Freddie, slipping down out of his
chair and going over to her. He saw that she was worried. "Have you
got the toothache?" he wanted to know. Once Freddie's tooth had ached
and he knew how it hurt.
"No, dear," answered Mrs. Bobbsey. "I haven't the toothache.
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