"Where are you going?"
"I have to go up the lake shore, to a place called Tenbly, to see
another lumber dealer on some business," Mr. Bobbsey said. "Where are
Nan and Flossie?" he asked his wife, who had come out on the porch
just then. "I could take them along also. There is plenty of room."
"Flossie and Nan have gone over to Mrs. Black's house," Mrs. Bobbsey
said. "Run along without them. It's just as well. I'd rather they
wouldn't be out in the hot sun, as we have to take a long train
journey to-morrow."
"All right," agreed Mr. Bobbsey, as he started off in the automobile
with Freddie and Bert. "We'll soon be back."
Neither Mr. Bobbsey nor the boys knew what was to happen on that ride,
nor how it was to affect them afterward.
CHAPTER III
THE RUNAWAY BOY
It was a pleasant trip for Freddie and Bert to ride with their father
in the automobile along the shady shores of the lake. The little twin,
and the bigger one, sat back on the cushions, now and then bouncing up
and down as the machine went over a rough place in the road.
Freddie, being lighter than Bert, bounced up and down oftener, but
then he was so fat, almost "like a lump of butter," as his mother used
to say, that he did not much mind it.
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