CHAPTER X
DIX COMES BACK
For a moment Sue stood looking at her mother, seeming to be thinking very hard about something. Then she asked:
"Momsie, do you think Dix took Sallie Malinda away?"
"Well, it seems so," said Mrs. Brown. "That is, if Dix has really gone away. We had better make sure of that, first. There is no question about your Teddy bear's being gone, for I saw her in the rag bed by the back door of the auto not half an hour ago."
"Well, I suppose she either fell out, or Dix, thinking to have a game of tag with her, took her out, though the Teddy bear, with the batteries inside to make her eyes light up, isn't easy for even Dix to carry very far," said Mr. Brown.
"But how are we going to get my darling Sallie Malinda back?" asked Sue, and there were tears in her eyes.
"Daddy will find some way. Won't you, Daddy?" asked Bunny, for he did not like to see his little sister sad.
"Well, the only thing I can see to do is to turn the automobile around and go back to look for Sue's Teddy bear," said Mr. Brown. "He may be lying beside the road where he fell from the auto."
"My Teddy bear isn't a he, Daddy!" cried Sue. "She's a she! Aren't there lady Teddy bears as well as gentlemen?"