"Perhaps," laughed his mother. "It isn't bad, now that the worst outburst is over. Come, Harry, tell us about your lost dog. We have lost one, too."
So, while the thunder boomed and the lightning flashed, Mrs. Slater and Harry told about their dog Sandy.
"And so he left us in Bellemere, and we haven't seen him since," finished Harry's mother.
"How strange!" exclaimed Mrs. Brown. "He left you the same day the strange dog ran into our yard, where Bunny and Sue were playing seesaw, and grabbed up my pocketbook. I wonder if, by any chance, it could be the same animal in both cases."
"This dog was a big, yellow one," said Bunny, and he described the animal that had caused him and Sue so much trouble.
"Sandy was yellow in color," remarked Mrs. Slater. "But I would not call him a very large dog."
"Perhaps the dog that took my wife's pocketbook and diamond ring seemed larger to Bunny and Sue than he really was," said Mr. Brown. "He rushed into the yard and out again so quickly that he may have looked extra big."
"It would be very strange if it should turn out to be our dog who made so much trouble over your pocketbook," went on Harry's mother. "Sandy did have a bad habit of running off with things. We tried to break him of it. And, now that I recall it, he took one of my gloves when he leaped out of the auto that day."
"The big, yellow dog that came into our yard and took my mother's pocketbook didn't have any gloves on," explained Sue.
"No, he wouldn't be likely to have any on," agreed Mrs. Slater. "But he might have carried one in his mouth."