"
"No, we won't," said Jan, Jo and Miss Brindley in one voice.
"Then what will you do?"
"We will give you two policemen, or all four if you like. We will pack
in here somehow. You can take the other house all to yourself."
"That will not do," said the professor. "If you are all determined to
sleep here, I too, will come here. You will need somebody to protect
you."
Jo's back went up.
"If you are afraid to sleep in the other house," she said, "you can
sleep here with us. But if you are coming here to protect us, we don't
require _you_."
"But you do not understand," said the professor kindly, as if to a
child: "there is danger. You will need me to protect you."
"Not in the least," answered Jo. "If you will say that you are afraid,
we will offer you our shelter. Otherwise you can have all four policemen
at the other house."
The professor was afraid to say that he was afraid, so after stating
that we were curious people, he went off with the guards.
With great difficulty we packed in.
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