Her aunt looked puzzled for a moment and then said:
"He's around somewhere if you'd like to see him, but why are you so anxious to see him, Ruth? He's Tony's brother, you know."
"Oh, I mean Joseph Williams, Jr.," exclaimed Ruth excitedly.
"Oh, he's asleep upstairs," said her aunt; "you may see him directly, but you must have something to eat first."
Their wraps were soon removed. A few minutes later happenings on Brookside Farm were intermingled with happenings in New England, as they asked and answered each others' questions.
After supper was over and while the girls were inspecting the new baby, Bob and his uncle sat in the office and figured out the inventory. Bob was just completing the written statement of the account, when his aunt and the two girls came into the office.
"Have you the inventory finished yet?" asked his aunt.
"Just finished," he said, laying down the sheet.
"Then we're just in time," said Edith, "for that's why we planned to reach here to-day; we wanted to know the result of the year's work, and I'm sure it must be a good report."