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Bert Bobbsey did not know what had caused that crashing sound any more / than did Nan. For a few moments he was frightened, as was his sister. / Certainly that crash was enough to scare any one, coming as it did in / the midst of the storm. And when you take four children, none of them / very old, and put them in a house all alone, except for Aunt Sallie / Pry, ill in bed, there is some reason for them to be afraid.
"Oh, what was it? " cried Nan again. "There it goes some more! " she went / on, as the banging, crashing sound repeated itself. "What is it, Bert?"