CHAPTER XII
LADDIE CATCHES A RIDDLE
Mrs. Bunker was startled when she did not see Violet with the other little Bunkers.
"Where's Vi?" she asked the other children. "Where did she go?"
"Oh, she just took her doll for a walk," said Russ. "She went away a little while ago, over there," and he pointed to the rolling plains behind the willow trees.
The plain was not flat, like a board. It was rolling land, with hills and hollows here and there. Some of the hills were high enough to hide a man behind them.
"Where did she go?" asked Mrs. Bunker, and now her voice was anxious.
"Just to give her doll a walk," explained Russ. "She got tired of playing sail-a-boat, she said, and she went for a walk, and took her doll."
"Violet! Violet! Where are you?" loudly called Mrs. Bunker.
There was no answer.