SUSPENSE

Soon the gorgeous chariot containing the carnival paraphernalia came
lumbering along en route for Berryville. It was a vision of red and
gold with wheels that looked like pinwheels in a fireworks display.

The one discordant note about it was the rather startling projection
of the heads and legs of animals here and there as if the wagon were
returning from a hunt in South Africa. But these were only the
disconnected parts of a merry-go-round.

Upon the white and silver wind organ which arose out of this ghastly
display sat a personage in cap and bells with face elaborately decorated
in every color of the rainbow. He was distributing printed announcements
to the gaping citizens of Everdoze. Not so much as a frankfurter or a
glass of lemonade did the people of this motley caravan buy.

It was late in the afternoon and Pee-Wee and Pepsy were feeling the
tedium of waiting when suddenly the sound of merry laughter burst upon,
their ears and somebody said, "Oh, I think it's perfectly adorable to be
on the wrong road! I just adore being lost! And I never saw anything so
perfectly excruciating in my life!"

"It's an auto full of girls," said Pee-Wee, adjusting his paper hat
upon his head; "they come from the city, I can tell; you leave them to
me."

"I never saw anything so adorably funny in all my life," the partners
now heard. "I just have a headache from laughing."