"
"Yes, but that was different from this," said Mrs. Brown. "Portland is a
big city, and if you go wandering about in it you'll be worse lost than
you were in the big woods. You children stay with me, and your father
will do all he can to find Fred."
So Bunny and Sue had to be content to stay at the hotel, to go
sightseeing with their mother, to go to the moving pictures, while Mr.
Brown looked after his business. Several times each day Bunny and Sue
went to the garage to see the dogs. And how glad Dix and Splash were to
see the children!
Finally the day came when Mr. Brown had finished his business. He made
several more attempts to find Fred, but could not do so and at last
wrote to Mr. Ward, as he had promised, that, as far as could be learned,
the missing boy was not in Portland.
"We will keep watch for him on our way back to Bellemere," Mr. Brown
said in his letter. "We are returning by a different route from that by
which we came. Every chance we get we will look for your boy."
Then the "Ark" was taken from the garage, to the delight of the dogs no
less than that of the children, and once more the Browns were on their
tour.
As Mr. Brown had said, they were going back a different way from the one
they had taken on coming to Portland.
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