“No, I think he isn’t any worse,” his mother answered. “But he doesn’t seem to be any better, either. Dr. Rudd, who was here a while ago, will see him again in the morning.”
“He didn’t find his lost son or the treasure, did he?” Sue wanted to know.
“No, dear. Now go to bed and don’t think any more about it.”
“I’m going to think of the fun we’ll have on the rolling ocean,” said Bunny Brown.
“So’m I,” murmured his sister Sue.
“Yes, that will be best,” their mother told them.
The children looked in at Mr. Pott the next morning, but he lay with eyes closed and did not see them. Then Bunny and Sue went to the store for their mother. They were gone about an hour. When they came back they saw Uncle Tad opening the windows in the room where the sick man had been. And they could look in and see that Mr. Pott was no longer on the couch.
“Where’s he gone?” cried Bunny. “Where’s Mr. Pott?”
“He has gone away,” said Mrs. Brown. “Dr. Rudd came and found that the poor man was much worse, so he decided to send him to the hospital. He can be better taken care of there than here. They took him to the hospital while you were at the store.”
“Oh!” murmured Bunny Brown. After a moment he asked: “Could we go to the hospital to see him?”