“I’ll let some of them have a wallop,” was the answer. “You’d think we were the first pair of twins they’d ever seen!”
“Well, maybe we are. How do you know? Suppose those trunks have come?”
They had, and for the next hour the twins were busy unpacking and getting settled. From beyond their door came sounds of much turmoil; the noise of arriving baggage, the banging of doors, shouts, whistling, singing; but they were otherwise undisturbed until, just when Laurie had slammed down the lid of his empty trunk, there came a knock at their portal, followed, before either one could open his mouth in response, by the appearance in the doorway of a bulky apparition in a gorgeous crimson bath-robe.
“Hello, fellows!” greeted the apparition. “Salutations and everything!”
“Hello, fellows! Salutations and everything!”
CHAPTER IV—KEWPIE STARTS SOMETHING
The twins stared silently and suspiciously for an instant. Then Ned made cautious response.