"Oh, I guess they will," declared Bert.
And, surely enough, when Hiram Hickson met the two foremen he held out
his hands to them and cried:
"My two boys! My lost boys! Grown to be men! Oh, I'm so glad I have
found you again!"
And then the Bobbseys and the cowboys who had witnessed the happy
reunion went away and left the father and sons together.
So everything turned out as Bert and Nan hoped it would, after they
had heard the two foremen speaking of their new name. And, in a way,
the Bobbsey twins had helped bring this happy time about. If they had
not gone to the railroad accident, if they had not heard Hiram Hickson
tell about his long-missing sons, and if they had not heard the cowboy
and the lumberman talking together, perhaps the little family would
not have been so happily brought together.
Mr. Hickson and his sons told each other their stories. As the old man
had said, there had been a quarrel at home, and his two sons, then
boys, had been hot-headed and had run away. They traveled together for
a time, and then separated.
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