Blipper at all!"
CHAPTER XXII
JOYOUS TIMES
Bob Guess could, for a moment, only stare at Bert after this strange
remark.
"What do you mean?" asked the boy from the merry-go-round. "Don't I have
to stay with Mr. Blipper if I don't want to?"
"I don't believe you do," went on Bert. "I heard my father and mother
talking about it," he explained to the others. "My father said he was
going to find out if Mr. Blipper had really adopted you. And if you stay
here until my father comes back he'll have this Mr. Blipper arrested for
taking his coat. Just you stay here, Bob!"
"I'd like to," sighed the unhappy lad. "I don't like Blipper. And if I
go back now, after having run away again, he'll beat me!"
"We won't let him!" exclaimed Aunt Sarah. "Here, I'll get you some dry
clothes. Harry has a suit you can wear. And then we'll see about this
Blipper man!"
As she started to leave the room to get some dry clothing for Bob Guess,
who was soaking wet, there was a noise and some excitement out in the
yard. Then Nan caught the sound of a voice she well knew.
"Oh, it's Flossie!" she cried. "It's Flossie! They've found them!"
Instantly there was a mad rush for the door, and a little later into the
warm, comfortable farmhouse came Mr. and Mrs. Bobbsey with the missing
twins--poor little wet twins, but happy for all that.
"Oh, hurray!" cried Bert, grabbing hold of Harry and dancing around the
room with him.
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