"Yes, we can leave before evening if you say so," replied Captain Ross. "How are you enjoying it?" he asked Sue. "Let's see, I know a riddle about a clam, if I can think of it. Let me see now, I wonder——"
"Where's Bunny?" asked Mrs. Brown, coming up on the deck at that moment.
"Wasn't he with you?" asked her husband.
"No, he didn't come down. I asked Bunker some time ago about him, and Bunker said he was on deck with Sue. But he isn't. Where is Bunny?"
CHAPTER XII
CHRISTMAS TREE COVE
When a family is making a trip on a boat and one of the children becomes lost, or is missing, there is always more worry than if the same thing happened on land. For the first thing a father and a mother think of when on a boat and they do not see their children or know where they are, is that the missing child has fallen into the lake, river or ocean—whatever the body of water may be.
So when Mrs. Brown came up on the deck of the Fairy and did not see Bunny, who she had thought was with Sue, she asked at once where he was.
And when Mr. Brown heard his wife say that Bunny had not come to the cabin he, too, began to wonder where the little boy was.