No one was in sight, and the painter had not come back. Sue was just
starting up the ladder, with Bunny going before her and Charlie
following her, when the little girl happened to think of something
else.

"S'posin' the roof's just been painted?" she asked. "How can I walk on
it?"

This was a poser for a moment until Charlie exclaimed:

"If it is I'll get some boards and we can lay them down to walk on."

Sue had no further excuse for not going up the ladder, and she began to
climb. She reached the top, and it was found that the painter had spread
his red mixture on only part of the roof. There was room enough to walk
on the unpainted part to her room window.

She was just climbing in, with the help of the boys, when she suddenly
noticed something that made her exclaim:

"Oh, look! How did that happen?"




CHAPTER X

THE LEGACY