Cautiously the children approached it. There the ladder stood, a big one, on a long slant leading from the ground to the roof of the one-story sun parlor. From the roof of this extension were several windows Sue could climb into, one opening from her own room.
No one was in sight, and the painter had not come back. Sue was just starting up the ladder, with Bunny going before her and Charlie following her, when the little girl happened to think of something else.
"S'posin' the roof's just been painted?" she asked. "How can I walk on it?"
This was a poser for a moment until Charlie exclaimed:
"If it is I'll get some boards and we can lay them down to walk on."
Sue had no further excuse for not going up the ladder, and she began to climb. She reached the top, and it was found that the painter had spread his red mixture on only part of the roof. There was room enough to walk on the unpainted part to her room window.
She was just climbing in, with the help of the boys, when she suddenly noticed something that made her exclaim:
"Oh, look! How did that happen?"