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It stopped and Ned stepped off. He glowered at Dot and asked: “What under the sun do you twins think we are, anyway?”

“Nuthin’ much, if you can’t take charge of a few children!” retorted Dot, glowering as darkly as he.

Jinks burst out laughing. “No use feeling upset about it, Ned. No one yet has been able to scold the twins!”

Another train now pulled in and Mete got off.

“I’d just like to know what right you trouble-makers had to leave us and wander around by yourselves?” demanded he, angrily.

“We didn’t wander—we rode! And what’s more you just got off the same kind of train we got on, so you went the same route!” exclaimed Dot, scornfully.

Now the train from uptown came in on its last stop at Hoboken. Off stepped Vene. She hurried over to join her friends with the exclamation:

“Oh, I saw Don on the train, but he didn’t get off at 23rd Street where I waited. Before I could call or get his attention, the cars moved on. I waited but he didn’t come back and I don’t know what to do!”

“What did you come here for?” demanded Mete, impatiently.