“Oh, Master Bob—oh, Miss Nell!” she exclaimed. “Who do you think have come, and is now in the house?”
Chapter Seventeen.
On Board the old “Victory.”
Bob and Nellie both stared at Sarah in surprise.
They thought, for the moment, the poor girl had lost her wits!
An inkling of the truth, however, flashed across their minds the next instant; and, pushing past the almost incoherent Sarah, who said something which neither of them caught the sense of, the two rushed into the lighted hall in a flurry of excitement.
Here the sight of several corded trunks and other luggage, which had not been there when they went out of the house earlier in the evening, at once confirmed their joyous anticipations.
“Hurrah!” cried Bob, giving vent to his feelings first. “Dad and mother are here at last!”