"Yes, and we're having as much fun as we did in Washington, where we
found Miss Pompret's china," added Bert. "I wonder if we'll discover
any mystery on this trip."
"I don't believe so," returned Nan.
However, the Bobbsey twins were to help in solving something which you
will read about before this book is finished.
But all things have an end, even the happy days in the lumber camp,
and one morning, after the little bald-headed cook had served
breakfast in the log cabin, Mr. Bobbsey said to the children:
"Well, we are going to travel on."
"Where are we going?" asked Bert.
"To Cowdon; to the cattle ranch," answered Mrs. Bobbsey. "I have
settled all the business here, and now we must go farther out West."
"I'll be sorry to see you go," said the foreman, Bill Dayton, when
told that the Bobbseys were going to leave. "I've enjoyed the children
very much."
"Did you ever have any of your own?" asked Mr. Bobbsey.
"No--never did," was the answer. "I'm not much of a family man. Used
to be, when I was a boy and lived at home," he went on, "But that's a
good many years ago.
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