But suffin's suah gwine t' happen - I feels it in
mah bones!"
And something was to happen, though not exactly what Dinah expected.
Finally all was in readiness for the guests. The good things to eat
were in the kitchen, all but the ice cream, which, as I have said, was
out on the back porch. Flossie and Freddie had gone to the front door
nearly a dozen times to see if any of the guests were in sight. Snap,
as a special favor, had been allowed to stay in the house that
afternoon, for the twins were going to make him do tricks for their
friends.
There came a ring at the door bell.
"Here they come! Here they come!" cried Flossie.
"Let me answer, too," cried Freddie, and they both hurried through the
front hall to greet the first guest at their party.
CHAPTER XIII
AN UNPLEASANT SURPRISE
QUICKLY, after the first guests had arrived came the others. Nellie
Parks, Grace Lavine friends of Nan, and Willie Porter and his sister
Sadie, came first, and Freddie and Flossie let them in, the Porter
children being some of their bestliked playmates.
All the children wore their best clothes, and for a time they were a bit
stiff and unnatural, standing shyly about in corners, against the walls,
or sitting on chairs.
The boys seemed to all crowd together in one part of the room, and the
girls in another. Flossie and Freddie, Nan and Bert, were so busy
answering the door that they did not notice this at first.
But Aunt Sarah, their mother's sister, who had come over to help Mrs.
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