At a number of places Mr. Brown asked about Fred Ward, the missing boy,
but no trace of him could be found, nor was anything more heard of the
traveling medicine show with the colored banjo player.
It was one evening at dusk, when the automobile had come to a stop for
the night, and the family were all sitting out under the tree near the
road, that Uncle Tad, looking down the highway, said:
"Isn't that a fire over there?" He pointed toward a neighboring
farmhouse.
"Do you mean a campfire or a bonfire?" asked Bunny.
"Neither one. I mean a real fire," said Uncle Tad.
"It is a fire!" suddenly cried Mr. Brown. "A shed near that barn is
blazing. See the men running to put it out!"
"We'd better go to help," said Uncle Tad.
"Let us come, too!" begged Bunny and Sue.
CHAPTER XIII
DIX AND THE CAT
Uncle Tad and Mr. Brown did not stop to answer the children's plea to be
allowed to go to the fire. On the men rushed, and Bunny and Sue turned
to their mother.
"Please mayn't we go?" they begged. "It isn't far, and it's early yet.
Besides, we know enough to keep away from fires."
"Well----" said Mrs. Brown slowly. Then she stopped as she saw Uncle Tad
running back, while Mr.
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