"Are we all here?" asked Daddy Bunker. "Wait until I count noses. Let me see: Russ, Rose, Vi, Laddie, Mun Bun and——"
Just then Mrs. Bunker uttered a cry.
"Why, where is Margy?"
And where was Margy? She was not with the other little Bunkers!
CHAPTER IX
ROSE'S DOLL
Daddy Bunker, who had started to "count noses," to make sure all his family was together, ready to start in the automobile with Jerry Simms for the depot, stopped suddenly when he found that little Margy was not with the other children. At the same time Mother Bunker also saw that one of her little girls was missing.
"Where did Margy go?" asked Mrs. Bunker. "I told her not to run back into the house."
"She didn't," said Norah. "I was standing right by the door all the while, and she didn't go in."