Go and post it , and do n't let any one see or know about it , '' she said , handing it over to Frank , who left his work with unusual alacrity to do her errand . When his eye fell on the address , he laughed , and said in a teasing way , -- `` Are you and Bob such good friends that you correspond ? What will Jack say ? '' `` Do n't know , and do n't care ! Be good , now , and let 's have a little secret as well as other folks . I 'll tell you all about it when he answers , '' said Jill in her most coaxing tone . `` Suppose he does n't ? '' `` Then I shall send you up to see him . I must know something , and I want to do it myself , if I can . '' `` Look here ; what are you after ? I do believe you think -- '' Frank got no farther , for Jill gave a little scream , and stopped him by crying eagerly , `` Do n't say it out loud ! I really do believe it may be , and I 'm going to find out . '' `` What made you think of him ? '' and Frank looked thoughtfully at the letter , as if turning carefully over in his mind the idea that Jill 's quick wits had jumped at . `` Come here and I 'll tell you . '' Holding him by one button , she whispered something in his ear that made him exclaim , with a look at the rug , -- `` No ! did he ? I declare I should n't wonder ! It would be just like the dear old blunder-head . '' `` I never thought of it till you told me where Bob was , and then it all sort of burst upon me in one minute ! ''
cried XXXXX , waving her arms about to express the intellectual explosion which had thrown light upon the mystery , like sky-rockets in a dark night .
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