Of course the children wanted to know when and where but the headless man would say no more and hurried them away from the table.
“Come! Come!” he urged. “You mustn’t stay here any longer or you’ll miss the party.”
“Party!” exclaimed Tommy. “It must be a surprise party. We never heard about it.”
“It will be a surprise party,” he said.
Muffs looked puzzled. “Is it somebody’s birthday?” she asked.
“I’ll have to go along and see,” declared the headless man.
“Were you invited?”
He scratched his head as if he were thinking. “Now let me see,” he said slowly. “I wasn’t exactly invited but if it’s a surprise party, don’t you think I might go as a surprise?”
The children thought at first that he was joking but when he said goodbye, his last words were, “I’ll see you both at the party.”
When they reached Tommy’s house someone was waiting on the porch. It was someone with golden hair and golden brown eyes and cheeks as rosy as Muffs’ own. It might have been Muffs herself except that this lovely person was a lady instead of a little girl. She held out both arms and Muffs rushed into them.