The boys watched her for a few seconds and then Bunny said in a low voice to the others:
“There’s no use waiting for Wango to come back. He won’t come as long as he sees Miss Winkler there with a broom. He’ll think she wants to beat him.”
“Where do you s’pose Wango is?” asked Harry.
“Oh, I guess he’s hiding around in the trees,” Bunny answered. “That’s where he runs to when Miss Winkler takes after him. Come on, we’ll go back and make Patter do his trapeze trick alone.”
On their way back the boys looked up in the trees they passed for a sight of Wango, but they saw nothing of the pet monkey. Then they turned toward Bunny’s house to go out to the barn and give Patter some practice on the trapeze.
When nearly at his house Bunny and his chums saw Bunker Blue driving along the street in one of Mr. Brown’s delivery autos.
“Oh, Bunker, give us a ride home!” called Bunny.
“Can’t!” answered the red-haired lad.
“Why not?”
“Because I’m going to the hospital.”