"Then you'll come?" This very eagerly.
"Yes, wait a minute while I put on my jacket."
[CHAPTER X]
FIRE!
A FEW minutes later the two little girls set off on their mission, carrying between them the homesick monkey.
The train journey to Farley was soon accomplished. One was just about to start, and the railway official, recognizing the children as two little season-ticket holders, allowed them to pass. Then came the walk to the gipsy encampment, which seemed very long and wearisome. They had no difficulty in finding the way, as Marcia already knew, from Rupert's description, whereabouts the encampment was situated. Marcia, in her anxiety about poor Jenny, forgot to be frightened as she approached the rough-looking men and women who were round about the caravans.
Taking the basket from Ella, who had carried it nearly all the way, she went up to the man who stood nearest the field gate.
"Hullo! Little missie," said he; "what have you got there, I should like to know?"
"It's Jenny," replied Marcia; "and I've brought her back 'cause she's homesick."
For a moment the man looked puzzled. Then, uncovering the little creature, it suddenly dawned upon him that it was the monkey which his son had sold to a young gentleman a short while previously.