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Waiting until some of the men had moved aside from the delivery window, Bert made his way to it. Mr. Anderson knew the Bobbsey boy, for in the summer Bert had often gone to his father's lumber office, and, more than once, had been allowed to go down to the post-office for the mail.
"No letters for the lumber company to-day, Bert," the postmaster said, with a smile. "There were a couple yesterday, but Mr. Jones got them."