When Danny's chums learned that it was known who had set the boat
adrift, they were rather frightened. When they realized the damage
they might have done, they kept away from Mr. Bobbsey's lumber yard
for a long time.
One day, about a week after this, the Bobbsey twins hurried home from
school without stopping to play with any of their friends.
"Why are you in such a hurry?" asked Grace Lavine of Nan.
"We expect our cousins to-day," Nan answered. "Then we are going to
get ready to go away in our houseboat."
Surely enough, when the twins reached home, there the cousins were to
greet them--Dorothy and Harry, one from the seashore, and the other
from the country.
"Oh, but I'm SO glad to see you!" cried Nan, as she hugged and kissed
Dorothy.
"And I'm SO glad to come," Dorothy answered with a smile. "It was
lovely of you to invite me to go on your boat."
"We'll have a lot of fun," said Bert to Harry.
"That's what we will," replied the boy from the country.
"We're both awful glad to see you!" chimed in Flossie, speaking both
for herself and for Freddie. "But we can't play with the fire engine."
"Not if we put water in," added Freddie.
"What in the world do they mean?" asked Dorothy, wonderingly.
"Oh, I'll have to tell you," laughed Nan, as she explained about the
accident.
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