“We should buy a water bucket also,” she remarked.
At Shady Hollow, the four separated, Miss Gordon and Rosemary going to the grocery store, while Veve and Connie went on to the hardware to purchase the water pail.
Now, directly behind the hardware store ran a railroad siding, but the two girls did not notice this immediately.
Carefully they made their purchase of the bucket, paid for it, and left the store.
Only then did Veve see the railroad tracks. A train with circus cars stood on the siding. The engine did not appear to be hooked on.
“Why, it’s a circus!” she exclaimed. “It looks like our circus!”
Veve meant that it appeared to be the same one the Brownies had witnessed a week earlier at Rosedale.
“It does look like the same one,” Connie admitted in astonishment. “I wonder if it is playing here?”
“Shady Hollow is too small a place. Probably it has pulled up on the siding so another train can go by.”
Thinking that perhaps they might see Eva Leitsall or Jim Carsdale, the girls cut through a vacant lot to the railroad tracks.