“Oh, please tell us!” begged Jan. “That is, if it isn’t a secret and you didn’t promise not to tell.”
“Well, it’s a secret. But I didn’t promise not to tell, for your mother didn’t tell me who was coming,” said Uncle Ben. “She just said I was to take the boat, go over to the Point, meet the train and bring the company back to camp.”
“But how are you going to know who to bring if you don’t know who is coming?” asked Ted.
“Oh, your mother said you’d know who it was as soon as you saw them,” said Uncle Ben, with a smile.
And Ted and Janet did. For no sooner did the train puff into the station and the passengers begin to get off than the Curlytops spied a boy and a girl of about their own ages.
“There’s Tom Taylor!” cried Ted.
“And Lola, his sister, too!” fairly shouted Janet. “Oh, they’re our company!”
“Hurrah! Hurrah!” yelled Ted and Janet.
Tom and Lola, seeing their playmates, whose mother had invited them to spend part of their vacation at Silver Lake, rushed down the depot platform.
“Oh, won’t we have fun!” cried Ted, capering about Tom.