"Isn't that enough?" her father interjected, with a laugh.
"I suppose so, but I thought—"
"Why, yes, that was all," said her mother, adding the next moment, surprised that she should have forgotten the most important part of all: "Oh, I forgot to tell you—Aunt Beatrice left you the house with all its contents."
"Oh!" breathed Billie again. "Now I know we're going to have a wonderful time!"
"What does the old house contain?" questioned Chet. His mind was on getting some money out of the inheritance for Billie.
"I am sure I do not know," answered his mother, "It may be completely furnished or it may be quite bare. I imagine, though, that Aunt Beatrice left it furnished. But everything is very old, and maybe the rats and moths have played sad havoc there."
They talked for a little while more about this strange thing that had happened. Then Mr. Bradley went off to pick up the loose ends of his business and Mrs. Bradley adjourned to the kitchen to discuss supper preparations with the mountainous Debbie.
Left alone, Billie and Chet looked at each other wonderingly.
"Well," said Billie in a slightly, awed tone, "we expected something to happen, and it certainly did."
"But we didn't expect her to leave you an old stone mansion," crowed Chet. "Say, Billie," he added, stopping before her in his excited pacing of the room to gaze at her eagerly, "aren't you crazy to go out and see it?"