CHAPTER 5
Under the Big Top
FOR just a minute the Brownies failed to realize how serious it was for Miss Gordon to lose her billfold.
“Step aside, please,” requested the ticket seller to the Brownie leader. “You are holding up the line.”
“I’ve lost my billfold,” murmured Miss Gordon. “I’m afraid I’ve been robbed.”
“Well, go tell a policeman,” said the ticket seller, not very much concerned. “I can do nothing for you.”
Miss Gordon stepped out of line so that other persons could buy their tickets.
“Oh, what will we do now?” asked Connie anxiously. “Won’t we get to see the circus? And is our camping money gone too?”
Miss Gordon did not reply. Instead, she kept searching through her pockets, hoping to find the missing billfold. But it was not there.
“I distinctly recall placing the billfold in my inside suit pocket,” she said. “I don’t see how it could have fallen out.”
Hoping to find the lost money, the Brownies searched the sawdust near the sideshow tents and even walked back to the circus entranceway.