"Did you find Toby?" asked Sue, as she ran out, tying her hair ribbon on the way. She was in such a hurry that she had not waited to do that in her room.
"No, he isn't in the stable," answered Bunny.
"But Bunker must have taken him to the blacksmith's shop," said Mrs. Brown. "I'm going to telephone to find out."
And just what Bunny feared would happen did happen. Mr. Brown said Bunker had not been up to the house, and he had not taken Toby away.
"And is Toby really gone?" asked Mr. Brown over the telephone wire.
"He can't be found," answered Mrs. Brown.
"I'll come right up and see what I can do," said Bunny's father. And then the only thing to do was to wait.
Bunny and Sue, with tears in their eyes, looked again in the barn and all around the house.
"But where can Toby be?" asked Sue, over and over again.
"Maybe he ran away," said Tressa, the maid.