Rose showed him where, put back in a hall closet, was an old satchel in which some odds and ends had been put the last minute for the automobile trip from home. With this in his hand, and pretending to be a doctor, Russ walked up to the playhouse Mun Bun and Margy had made for themselves in one corner of the living room.
"Which is the sick baby?" asked Russ, just as Dr. Gage might have done. He looked at the dolls which Mun Bun and Margy had.
"They're both sick," said Margy, "and they both want a lot of medicine."
"Well, I'll give one some red pills and the other some green," said "Dr. Russ." He dropped his satchel of make-believe medicine to the floor and was about to look at Margy's doll, when Rose gave a startled cry and pointed to the old satchel.
"Look! Look!" she cried. "See what was in the old valise!"
CHAPTER XXIV
TAD'S NEWS
Margy almost dropped her sick doll, she was so surprised at the astonishment in the voice of Rose and at the manner in which her sister pointed toward the old valise. Mun Bun, too, looked at the leather satchel on the floor, and Russ, who had dropped it, stared with wide-opened eyes at the sight which met his gaze.
"Look! Look!" went on Rose. "There it is!"
"What?" asked Margy.