“I guess Bunny is down there waiting for us,” said Mr. Brown, as he started for the dining saloon with his wife and Sue.
Much to the surprise of his father and mother, Bunny was not waiting for them in the dining saloon. The tables were set and many of the passengers were in their chairs. But at the table assigned to the Brown family there was no Bunny.
“I wonder where he is,” said Mrs. Brown.
“Perhaps he went up on deck to find us,” suggested her husband. “He may have gone up by a different stairway, and we didn’t see him. I’ll go and look. You sit down with Sue, my dear.”
Mrs. Brown sat down at the table to wait for her husband’s return. But when he came down a little later he was alone.
“Where’s Bunny?” asked Mrs. Brown, now anxious.
“He wasn’t up there on deck, and no one seems to have seen him around lately,” was the answer. “I think he must have wandered into some other part of the ship. Perhaps he has gone down to the engine room. The last time I took him there he asked to go again, and I said I’d see about it. He may have gone there by himself.”
“I hope nothing has happened to him!” exclaimed Mrs. Brown.
“Nothing has, I’m sure,” her husband said. “But I’ll have a search made at once.”
Without waiting to start his meal, Mr. Brown spoke to some of the officers, and at once a search was started through the ship to find the missing boy.