CHAPTER XXII
CAUGHT AT LAST
Meanwhile Bert and his father were keeping on with the search for Baby May. Once they saw an old woman going along the road ahead of them, carrying a sack over her back.
“Oh, maybe she has Baby May in that bag!” cried Bert.
His father hardly thought so, but speeded up the auto until they reached the old woman.
“What do you want?” she demanded.
“Have you a baby in that sack?” asked Mr. Bobbsey.
“Goodness, no! I should hope not,” answered the woman, with a laugh. “I’ve got potatoes in here. Why would I be carrying a baby?”
Then Mr. Bobbsey explained that he and Bert were looking for a kidnapper and they inquired of the “potato woman,” as they called her, whether she had seen anything of Baby May.
“No, I haven’t,” she answered. “I’ve just been after these potatoes, that’s all.”
As the bag was heavy, Mr. Bobbsey gave the woman and her potatoes a ride to the woman’s house.