“I should think you might!” laughed the steward. “I guess, little miss, you’ve been down in the stoke hold.”
“Yes, that’s where I was,” admitted Sue, “and a nice, big, black, coal man showed me the way back.”
Mr. Brown came along just then, somewhat worried over Sue’s absence, and took her to her mother’s room.
Soon after Sue had left her mother lying down in the stateroom Mr. Brown had come below to see his wife. He said Sue had not come back to the deck where he and Bunny had been waiting, and when Mrs. Brown related that Sue had left her some time before, there was a worrisome time until the little girl appeared.
“Don’t wander away like that again,” chided her mother.
“No’m, I won’t,” promised Sue.
The excitement over, Sue went up on deck with her doll, and after a while she announced that the doll was asleep.
“How can she be asleep when her eyes are open?” Bunny wanted to know. “She isn’t asleep at all!”
“She is so!” declared Sue.
“But how can she be with her eyes open?” asked the little boy. “You don’t sleep with your eyes open, do you?”