CHAPTER I
RUSS IN DANGER
“Margy, will you look out on the porch and see if she’s there?”
“Yes, Vi, I will. But you ought to say please to me, ’cause mother says——”
“All right then. Please look and see if she’s there,” begged Vi, otherwise Violet Bunker. There were six of the little Bunkers. The other four will be out presently.
Margy, who had been looking at picture books with her year-older sister in a room off the porch, kindly dropped her book and started for the door.
“If she’s there bring her in—please.” Violet laughed a little as she added the last word. She remembered what Margy had started to say about politeness.
Violet was piling up the books, for she had just thought of something new to play, when Margy came hurrying back into the room.
“She isn’t there!” gasped the smaller Bunker girl.
“She isn’t?” Violet fairly gasped out the words, and you could easily tell that she was very much excited. “Are you sure, Margy?”
“No, she isn’t there, Vi! Maybe a tramp has taken her!”