Then Bunny gave some more news.
"Dix is gone too!" he cried. "I've been watching a long while and I
haven't seen him. And Splash is acting awful funny--just as if Dix had
run away."
"Hum! This _is_ rather strange!" exclaimed Mr. Brown. "Two
disappearances at once."
"What's disappearcesses?" asked Sue.
"It means going away--the word your father used does," explained Mrs.
Brown with a smile. "But it certainly is strange that Dix and the Teddy
bear should go away together."
CHAPTER X
DIX COMES BACK
For a moment Sue stood looking at her mother, seeming to be thinking
very hard about something. Then she asked:
"Momsie, do you think Dix took Sallie Malinda away?"
"Well, it seems so," said Mrs. Brown. "That is, if Dix has really gone
away. We had better make sure of that, first. There is no question about
your Teddy bear's being gone, for I saw her in the rag bed by the back
door of the auto not half an hour ago."
"Well, I suppose she either fell out, or Dix, thinking to have a game of
tag with her, took her out, though the Teddy bear, with the batteries
inside to make her eyes light up, isn't easy for even Dix to carry very
far," said Mr. Brown.
"But how are we going to get my darling Sallie Malinda back?" asked Sue,
and there were tears in her eyes.
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