"No have got lil' gal's play bear. Nobody here have got. You look in all Indian houses and see for yourself."
"No. I'll take your word for it," said Mr. Brown. "I believe the Teddy bear is not here. It must have been taken by some one else. I will look farther."
But Eagle Feather insisted on some of the head men's huts being searched, and this was done. But no doll was found.
"Oh, dear! Where can Sallie Malinda be?" half sobbed Sue.
"Never mind," said her father. "If you can't find your bear, and Bunny's cars are still gone, in two weeks I'll get you new ones. But I think they will come back as mysteriously as they went away. Now, we must go home."
"But I thought you were going to look in the cabin of the hermit," said Bunny.
"We'll have to do that after dinner," answered Daddy Brown. But when dinner was half over there came a telegram for Mr. Brown telling him he was needed back at his business office at once, as something had gone wrong about the fish catch.
"Well, I'll have to go now," said the children's father; "but I'll help you look for the Teddy doll and the train of cars when I come back," he said.
It was a little sad in Camp Rest-a-While when Mr. Brown had gone, but Mother Brown let the children play store, with real things to eat and to sell, and they were soon happy again. Finally Sue said:
"Bunny, do you know where that hermit's hut is—the one where you got the milk the time the dog drank it?"