others.

"You have begun well," said Daddy Bunker gravely. "Stirring up the whole
ship's company before we are out of sight of land! I must hurry and tell
the captain to call off his sea-dogs. The lost is found."

"What are sea-dogs?" demanded Vi. "Do they have dogs at sea to hunt for
lost children--dogs like Alexis?"

Nobody answered that question, but Rose and Russ, trotting along the
deck beside their father, were more fortunate in getting their questions
answered.

"Are we really going to sail out of sight of land, Daddy?" asked Rose.

"We certainly are," said Mr. Bunker.

"But there is a lot of land," said the girl, pointing. "We can't lose
all that, can we?"

"That is just what we are going to do. You watch. By and by the land
will be only a line on the horizon, and then it will fade out of sight
entirely."

So Russ and Rose remained on deck to watch the land disappear. Rose
expected it to go something like a "fade-out" on the moving picture
screen. The disappearance of the land proved to be a very long matter,
however, and the two children went below for lunch when the first call
came.