Daddy Bunker, who had started to "count noses," to make sure all his
family was together, ready to start in the automobile with Jerry Simms for
the depot, stopped suddenly when he found that little Margy was not with
the other children. At the same time Mother Bunker also saw that one of
her little girls was missing.

"Where did Margy go?" asked Mrs. Bunker. "I told her not to run back into
the house."

"She didn't," said Norah. "I was standing right by the door all the while,
and she didn't go in."

"Maybe she went in the back way," said Russ.

"The back door is locked," returned Norah. "She must have run down the
street to say good-bye to some of her playmates while the expressman was
loading in the trunks."

"I'll go and look," offered Russ.

"And you look in the back and side yards, Rose," said Mr. Bunker.

Rose ran around to the back yard. A hasty look showed her that her little
sister was not there, and she hurried around to the front porch to tell
her father and mother.

At the same time Russ came back from his trip down the street.

"I didn't see her anywhere," he reported, "and I called, but she didn't
answer."