For a week or more the "Ark" traveled on. Every time he got a chance Mr.
Brown asked about Fred, in the different towns through which they
passed, but could get no trace of the missing boy.
They saw other medicine showmen who had with them players or singers,
but none of them were at all like the runaway Fred.
"It must have been he who was with Dr. Perry," said Mrs. Brown.
"Yes, and I presume he feared we knew him and so he ran on farther," her
husband added. "He may be in Portland now."
"How soon shall we be there?" asked Bunny.
"In a few more days now."
Two days later, as they camped outside a little village for the night,
they saw beside the road a signboard which read:
TWENTY MILES TO PORTLAND
"Oh, we'll be there to-morrow!" cried Bunny. "Then we can find Fred, and
can send him to his mamma and papa!"
CHAPTER XVIII
CAMPING OUT
Mr. Brown was awakened in the morning feeling little hands tugging at
him as he lay in his bunk, and childish voices crying:
"Come on, Daddy! Get up! Get up!"
"Eh? What's this? Get up!" he exclaimed. "Why, what's the matter, Bunny
and Sue?" he went on, as he saw the two standing inside the curtains
that hung in front of his bed.
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