"You mustn't fight!" declared Mrs. Brown.
"Oh, we was only in fun, lady," laughed the one who had first tripped the other.
"Have you seen a little boy and girl?" went on Mrs. Brown.
"White chilluns?" asked one of the black boys.
"Co'se she done mean white chilluns!" exclaimed another. "I done seen 'em get offen de train!"
"Have you seen them since?" asked Mrs. Brown. "We had lunch, and my husband went uptown. I sat down on the bench, and Bunny and Sue walked down the street. I haven't seen them since, and they aren't in sight. Do you know where they are?"
None of the colored boys did, it appeared, though hearing that two white children were missing there were soon eager volunteers to search for them.
Out and around the station scattered the colored boys, Mrs. Brown having said she would give fifty cents to the one first bringing news of Bunny and Sue.
"Oh, golly! I'se gwine to earn dat money, suah!" cried one lad.
But though the boys looked up and down the different streets, and though some even went into near-by stores, not a trace of Bunny or Sue could they find. And for a good reason—because Bunny and Sue were traveling far away in the freight car with Nutty, the tramp.