"All right. Wait till I go back and anchor my ship and I'll come."
"No, you mustn't go!" exclaimed Mother Bunker. "We must all keep together. I don't want any more of you getting lost."
"Is Vi lost, Mother?" asked Rose, and she moved over closer to Mrs. Bunker.
"Well, I don't know that she is lost," was the answer. "Probably not. But she isn't here with us. She has wandered away. I'll call again.
"Vi! Violet, where are you?" called Mrs. Bunker, as loudly as she could. But there was no answer. Only the wind rustled the branches of the willow tree and the tall grass near the creek.
"Maybe she fell asleep, same as you did," suggested Laddie to his mother.
"Well, perhaps she did, and if she were to lie down in the tall grass we couldn't see her," said Mrs. Bunker. "Oh, dear! I wish I hadn't gone to sleep, and that Vi hadn't wandered off."
She called again, but there was no answer.
"We'd better go for Daddy!" exclaimed Russ. Daddy Bunker was the one always wanted when anything happened.
"But we can't get him," said Mrs. Bunker. "He has gone away with Uncle Fred to look for the lost cattle."