like that. Bunny and Sue were, as a rule, very good.

Well, instead of going to bed they stood by the window where they could
watch the lawn on which Splash and Dix were still playing.

"We mustn't catch cold," said Sue. "We'd better wrap a blanket around
us, Bunny, if we stand by the window, though it isn't cold at all."

"Yep," grunted Bunny, who was so interested in watching his father cross
the grass plot that he did not feel like talking much.

Sue brought a light blanket from her bed and one from Bunny's, and in
these the children wrapped themselves, and stood by the window.

"There he is!" cried Bunny, as he saw the tall figure of his father,
accompanied by a bigger shadow in the moonlight, appear on the lawn.

"Hush!" cautioned Sue. "Don't talk so loud or mother will come up and
make us go to bed."

Bunny "hushed," and then the two children watched. They saw their father
go up the side steps of the Ward house and very soon come out again.

"It didn't take him long to find out," said Bunny in a low voice.

"I hope Fred has come back," whispered Sue.

But it was not, as they learned a little later when their mother came
upstairs to tell them. The children had quickly scampered back to their
beds when they heard their mother coming up, and she found two anxious