"Aren't you coming back with us, Daddy, and finish your dinner?" Laddie asked his father.
"We had enough," said Mr. Bunker.
"You didn't eat your pie," said Laddie.
"Well, then, I'll take two pieces at supper," said Mr. Bunker, and he laughed with Captain Ben.
The rest of the day passed quickly for the four little Bunkers and Tad Munson, who played with them around the barn and the farmhouse. Tad seemed happier, now that he had been promised a ride almost to the town near Grand View where he wanted to go. But with all his good-nature, there seemed to be something strange about this boy who had taken apples because he was hungry.
"I have my own ideas about that lad," is what Russ heard Mr. Brown saying to his wife when milking time came.
"What do you think," asked Mrs. Brown.
"I think he's been in some kind of trouble," went on the farmer. "Too bad, it is, for he seems like a nice lad."
Russ wondered what could be the matter with Tad.
Daddy Bunker and Captain Ben came up the road from the ditch where they had been working on the automobile. They looked tired, and they were very dirty.