“Well, just tell Mr. Keller the reason I am coming to see him,” went on Mr. Narr, “is that I want to get his bunch of keys. I’ve left mine at my town house, and I want to get in my safe deposit box in New York City, without going all the way back to where I live to get my keys. I don’t want to have them mailed, for they might be lost. It’s a bad thing to lose keys—especially safe deposit box keys. Just tell Mr. Keller that I’ll be over to the mainland in a day or so, to get his bunch of keys. They’re really my keys, but he keeps them for me. Do you think you can remember that message, Curlytops?”
“Yes—yes, sir,” almost whispered Teddy.
The worst had happened!
Mr. Keller’s sad loss was going to be found out, and by the very man he didn’t want to know.
What could be done?
CHAPTER XIX
MR. NARR ARRIVES
Mr. Narr, not knowing anything of the feelings he was causing in the fluttering hearts of Janet and Ted, began to plan for getting the Curlytops home to the main shore and to Sunset Beach.
“Now don’t forget my message to Mr. Keller about my keys, will you?” asked the rich man.
“We’ll remember,” said Ted, glancing at his sister. That was the trouble—they only wished they could forget. But they could not.
“Now I think the best way to get you two shipwrecked sailors home is to send you in my motor boat,” went on Mr. Narr. The eyes of Ted and Janet sparkled with joy at this, and they almost forgot the trouble coming to poor Mr. Keller. They loved to ride in a motor boat. “Yes,” went on Mr. Narr, “the motor boat will be best. Then it can tow your rowboat.”