Cliff, the Minturn cottage, could now be seen.

"Hello! Hello!" called voices from the veranda.

"Aunt Emily and Dorothy!" exclaimed Bert, and called back to them:

"Here we come! Here we are!" and the wagon turned in to the broad
steps at the side of the veranda.

"I've been worried to death," declared Aunt Emily, as she began
kissing the girls.

"We have brought company," said Mrs. Bobbsey, introducing Mrs. Manily,
"and I don't know what we should have done in all our troubles if she
had not been along to cheer us up."

"We are delighted to have you," said Aunt Emily to Mrs. Manily, while
they all made their way indoors.

"Oh, Nan!" cried Dorothy, hugging her cousin as tightly as ever she
could, "I thought you would never come!"

"We were an awfully long time getting here," Nan answered, returning
her cousin's caress, "but we had so many accidents."

"Nothing happened to your appetites, I hope," laughed Uncle William,
as the dining-room doors were swung open and a table laden with good
things came into sight.

"I think I could eat," said Mrs. Bobbsey, then the mechanical piano