"I—I don't want to stay here!" said Sue, almost ready to cry.
"Well, you've got to stay whether you want to or not!" snapped the gypsy woman. "We can't let you go to bring the police after us. You'll have to stay here! We'll just keep you prisoners awhile until we can pack up and move! Now don't be afraid, for I won't hurt you! You'll just have to stay until we can get away, that's all!"
What was going to happen to Bunny and his Sister Sue?
CHAPTER XXIV
THE RED-AND-YELLOW BOX
The gypsy woman sat down in a chair in front of the two children and looked at them. And Bunny and Sue, their hearts beating fast, and not knowing what was going to happen to them, looked at the woman. They did not like her at all. She did not smile as Jaki Kezar had done, and her teeth, instead of being white and shining, were black.
"If you don't cry nothing will happen to you," she said.
"We—we're not going to cry!" said Bunny, as bravely as he could. "We—we're not afraid and we want our pony!"
To tell the truth, Bunny had been on the point of crying, and there were tears in Sue's eyes. But when the little girl heard her brother say that, she just squeezed the tears back again where they belonged—that is all except two, and they "leaked out," as she said afterward.