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Why!" exclaimed Bunny to his sister. "Look, Sue! We're lost again!" "Lost?" "Yes. We're away far off from our house. I don't know where we are; do you?" "No," and Sue looked at the road along which they were moving in the automobile. "Oh, Bunny! Are we really lost again?" Sue spoke so loudly that Mr. Reinberg, who was at the steering wheel, turned around quickly.
"Maybe he thinks it's a hand organ," suggested Bunny Brown, and the people in the store laughed. "Come on, Wango! Come down!" cried Mr. Winkler, but the monkey would not leap down from the high shelf. "Guess you'll have to climb up and get him yourself, Jed," suggested Mr. Reinberg, who kept the drygoods store next door.
"On a trolley car, only Splash couldn't come, and we had to go back and we got lost and and " "Splash found the way home for us," finished Bunny, for Sue was out of breath. "Well, we won't get lost this time," Mr. Reinberg said. "Now off we go again," and away went the automobile, giving Bunny and Sue a fine ride. They soon reached Wayville, where Mr. Reinberg went to see some men.
She bought a ticket from them, and Sue and Bunny each bought a penny's worth of candy. Coming out of the store, the children saw an automobile, belonging to Mr. Reinberg, who kept the dry-goods store. He was just getting out of the automobile. "Oh, Mr. Reinberg, please give us a ride!" begged Bunny. "All right," answered the store-keeper.
"Even in that case," he said in a very low tone, "Miss Van Hoyt will herself be present. It is not necessary that you should accompany her." "I regret to say that I think differently," I answered. "Unless Mrs. Van Reinberg withdraws her invitation, I shall certainly be present." "That," Mrs. Van Reinberg declared, "I shall not do. Mr. Courage must do as he thinks best."
"You will be late for dinner as it is. Don't seem too eager about it, but remember it is absolutely necessary that you get an introduction to Mrs. Van Reinberg." I nodded. "I'll do my best," I promised. I found that a place had been allotted to me about half-way down the captain's table, on the right-hand side.
"Then it will be all right." So he and Sue got in the back part of the automobile, the door of which was open. The children sat up on the seat, waiting for Mr. Reinberg to come out of the post-office, but he stayed there for some time. Bunny and Sue thought it would be fun to sit down in the bottom of the car, and pretend they were in a boat.
I noticed, however, that she seemed to be eating little, and to be taking but a very small part in the conversation. Once or twice she leaned back in her chair, and looked round the saloon as though in search of some one. On the last of these occasions our eyes met, and she smiled slightly. Mrs. Van Reinberg, who was sitting opposite to her, leaned forward and asked some question.
"Thanks, the deck steward is bringing it," she answered. "Let me introduce you to my friends Mrs. Van Reinberg my stepmother, Miss Van Reinberg, Miss Sara Van Reinberg, Mr. de Valentin Mr. Hardross Courage." I bowed collectively. Mr. de Valentin greeted me stiffly, Mrs. Van Reinberg and the Misses Van Reinberg, with a cordiality which somewhat surprised me.
"In this instance," he said coldly, "I am not entirely my own master. There were powerful reasons why I should have taken this voyage to America, and there are reasons why I should have done so with Mrs. Van Reinberg. Which brings me, by the bye, to the second matter concerning which I wished to speak to you."
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