Cherry Ames 09 Cruise Nurse by Helen Wells

Author:Helen Wells [Wells, Helen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Grosset and Dunlap
Published: 2011-12-31T13:26:27+00:00

UNCLE

BEN

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“Was he the Uncle Ben who told you about ambergris?” Cherry put in.

Jan nodded. “He not only told me about it, he gave it to me. But then he died, and now nobody knows where it is. I’ve got to fi nd it. It must be somewhere in that stateroom.”

Cherry’s mouth fell open in surprise. “In Timmy’s stateroom? Why on earth would it be there?” Jan sighed. “I guess I had better begin at the beginning. It happened a few days before Thanksgiv-ing when I was all alone in the apartment. Mother had gone to the theater and the servants had the afternoon off. The doorman called up from downstairs and said there was a ‘peculiar character’ calling to see Mother.

Claimed to be her brother-in-law.” Jan grinned. “That made him my uncle. I was downright curious to see an uncle whom William described as a ‘peculiar character.’ So I said, ‘Send him right up, William.’

“I opened the door and there stood this big, raw-boned man with the most weather-beaten face you ever saw. He was wearing a rough coat that hadn’t been pressed in years and a thick navy-blue sweater and tight, blue serge pants, and, believe it or not, Cherry, knee boots! No hat, and there was melting snow in his bushy white hair, and his hands were rough and red. I wouldn’t have believed he was Daddy’s ‘black sheep’ older brother, except for his eyes. They were my grandfather’s own green, twinkling eyes. Granddaddy was a country banker. And although he was very rich, 112 CHERRY

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he drove around in a battered old Ford, and never put on airs. Everyone loved him.”

“He sounds like a wonderful person,” Cherry said.

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