His brother beheld him with anguished eyes.

As Merle demonstrated the problem in hydraulics the girl studied him more attentively, then gleamed with a sudden new radiance.
"Oh, I'll tell you what let's do!" she exclaimed.

"We'll change clothes with each other, and then I'll be Ben Blunt without waiting till I get to the great city.

Cousin Juliana could pass me right by on the street and never know me." She clapped her small brown hands.

"Goody!" she finished.
But the twins stiffened.