"And I've searched high and low for it all over this house, but I can't find it!" said Miss Winkler.
Bunny and Sue did not know quite what to make of all the excitement over the lost wig which Mr. Treadwell wore on his head in certain parts of the play. So they stood to one side while the search went on. Sue looked in the sitting room, while Mr. Treadwell and Miss Winkler went into the parlor that was hardly ever opened.
Something that Bunny saw in a chair in front of the kitchen stove made him call out:
"Oh, Miss Winkler! there's a funny old man in your kitchen, and he's trying to open the cupboard door where you keep the cookies. Come and see the funny old man!"
CHAPTER XIX
UNCLE BILL
"What's that, Bunny Brown?" called Miss Winkler, stepping to the door of the parlor, in which Mr. Treadwell was looking for his missing wig. "What's that you said about an old man?"
"There's one in your kitchen now," added Sue, for she was now looking at the funny "old man" in the kitchen.
"One what in my kitchen?" asked Miss Winkler, in surprise.