“That’s right!” agreed her brother. “I wonder if she is crazy again and has come to take the baby away?”
It was Mrs. Martin who had been left in charge of Baby Jenny while her parents went to South America and who had left the little one on the Bobbsey’s doorstep in the rain that strange day. And now Mrs. Martin was at Cloverbank!
What could it mean?
CHAPTER XVI
THE RUNAWAYS
“Shall we go in?” asked Nan of her brother in a whisper, after they had stood outside the door a few moments, listening to the voices within the room.
“Well, I guess so—yes,” he replied. Then, as he listened and heard the sound of laughter mingled with the talking, he began to believe that, after all, Mrs. Martin had only called in a friendly way and not to get the baby again. “Sure, let’s go in,” said Bert.
Followed by Flossie and Freddie, who did not understand very much about why the other two had delayed, the twins entered the room where the old lady who had acted so strangely about “Baby May” was seated.
Mrs. Bobbsey and Mrs. Watson were also there, and so was Baby Jenny, who was being held by the old lady.
“Well, here are the lost twins!” exclaimed Mrs. Bobbsey, with a laugh, as her four entered.