"Look out!" cried another voice. "There she goes!"
Almost as he spoke there was a further scramble on the part of the
crowd, and the balloon tore loose from the holding ropes before the men
had time to put on the new ones.
"There she goes!" echoed the crowd. "Up goes the balloon!"
And up it went, taking Flossie and Freddie with it! Up and up it rose,
shooting above the heads of the crowd.
"Oh, Freddie!" cried Flossie, "what's going to happen?"
"We're going up in a balloon!" shouted Freddie, and then he laughed. He
thought it was fun.
"Oh, I want to get down!" screamed Flossie. She looked over the edge of
the basket, as did her brother, and just then Mrs. Bobbsey glanced up.
"Oh, my children! Flossie and Freddie!" she gasped, pointing. "They're
in the balloon!"
CHAPTER XVI
ON THE ISLAND
There was great excitement down on the ground when the cry of Mrs.
Bobbsey told her husband, the other children, and the big crowd that
Flossie and Freddie had been carried away in the balloon. At first some
did not believe it, and even Mr. Bobbsey found it hard to imagine that
such a thing could happen.
But one look up at the swaying basket dangling from the runaway balloon
showed him the faces of Flossie and Freddie looking down at the earth
which seemed to be dropping away from them.
"Oh, my children! My children! Flossie! Freddie!" cried Mrs. Bobbsey,
tears streaming down her cheeks, as she raised her hands toward the
swiftly rising balloon.
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