Chapter Twenty-One A VISIT TO THE POLICE STATION
　　ANNE liked Jennifer very much, and gave her a hug and a kiss. Jennifer looked round the well-furnished cave in amazement¹ and wonder - and then she gave a scream of surprise and joy. Shepointed to Anne's neatly-made bed, on which sat a number of beautiful dolls, and a large teddy-bear.
　　'My dolls!" she said. "Oh, and Teddy, too! Oh, oh, where did you get them? I've missed them so!
　　Oh Josephine and Angela and Rosebud² and Marigold, have you missed me?"She flung herself on the dolls. Anne was very interested to hear their names. "I've looked after themwell," she told Jennifer. "They're quite all right.""Oh, thank you," said the little girl, happily. "I do think you're all nice. Oh, I say - what a lovelybreakfast!"
　　It was. Anne had opened a tin of salmon³, two tins of peaches, a tin of milk, cut some bread andbutter, and made a big jug⁴ of cocoa. Jennifer sat down and began to eat. She was very hungry, and asshe ate, she began to lose her paleness and look rosy⁵ and happy.
　　The children talked busily as they ate. Jennifer told them about herself.
　　"I was playing in the garden with my nurse," she said, "and suddenly, when nurse had gone indoorsto fetch something, a man climbed over the wall, threw a shawl round my head, and took me away.
　　We live by the sea, you know, and I soon heard the sound of the waves splashing on the shore, and Iknew I was being put into a boat. I was taken to a big ship, and locked down in a cabin for two days.
　　Then I suppose I was brought here one night. I was so frightened that I screamed."97
　　"That was the scream we heard," said George. "It was lucky we heard it. We had thought there wassmuggling going on here, in our island - we didn't guess it was a case of kidnapping, till we heardyou scream - though we had found your trunk with your clothes and toys.""I don't know how the man got those," said Jennifer. "Maybe one of our maids helped him. There wasone I didn't like at all. She was called Sarah Stick.'
　　"Ah!" said Julian, at once. "That's the one, then! It was Mr. and Mrs. Stick who brought you here.

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