“Then what?” asked Jan, for she thought it sounded like a story in which one has stopped after telling halfway through.
“Then,” said Hal softly, “maybe the Princess Blue Eyes won’t need me any more.”
“Oh, yes she will!” put in Ted. “There’s lots of mosquitoes left yet. I feel ’em biting me!”
And a few weeks later Hal could walk as straight as anyone, though he had to go slowly until his leg and foot fully healed. But he was very happy, and so were many other boys and girls in the Home who were cured and made more comfortable, because of the money Grandpa Martin gave when he sold so many cherries.
Then followed many fine vacation days at Cherry Farm. I could not begin to tell you all the Curlytops did if I had a book twice the size of this one. But I can tell you about some of the things in another book to be called “The Curlytops on Star Island; Or, Camping Out with Grandpa.” In that you may read how Ted and Jan, to say nothing of Trouble, went to the island in Clover Lake, and had many adventures.
“Well, what shall we do to-day?” asked Ted of Jan, as they went out on the porch one morning, about a week after Hal had been cured and the chewing cherry candy made.
“Let’s go for a ride with Nicknack,” said Jan.
As they were going back to the stable where they kept their goat, they heard some one calling:
“Stop it now! You stop it!”
“What’s that?” asked Janet.