Daddy Bunker and Captain Ben helped in the search for the missing rings and other things, and when they could not be found they went down after the automobile. It had been repaired so it would go again, and soon the four little Bunkers and their father and the marine were ready to travel on again.
"If you see anything of Tad or some tramps, ask them if they have my jewelry," called the farmer's wife to the little party as they started off.
"We will," promised Russ.
Once more they were on the way. The weather was fine, and the roads firm and Captain Ben's automobile was almost as good as before it had gone head-first into the ditch by the canal.
"I almost forget how mother and Mun Bun and Margy look," said Rose, as they were on the last stage of their journey.
"Yes, though it is only two days since we have seen them, it seems much longer," said her father. "But we'll all be together this evening, and then for some glorious times!"
"Hurray!" cried Laddie. "I'm going to think up a lot of new riddles, too!"
They stopped at a wayside spring to get a drink. The spring was not far from a farmhouse, and as Russ, Rose and the other children were looking at the flowers in the front yard they noticed a dog barking at a big log which lay in a meadow not far from the road.
"Is that your dog?" asked Russ of a farm boy who came out to look at the automobile party.
"Yes," was the answer. "And he's been barking around that log all morning. I guess maybe something's inside. Maybe a groundhog is in there."