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When he saw the automobile he stopped, dropped what he had in his mouth, and lay down beside it. Then he began to bark joyfully. "Oh, it's my Sallie Malinda! It's my Teddy bear!" cried Sue. "You dear old Dix! You found Sallie Malinda for me!" And that is just what had happened, they decided after they had talked it over among themselves.
"Lions don't like bears and this one might bite Sallie Malinda. Then maybe she couldn't flash her eyes any more." The Teddy bear had dried out after the fall into the lake, and was as good as ever. So Bunny and Sue had to stay and play around the automobile, not going far away.
You can't do that way with a Teddy bear. If you pull off one of his legs or his head he's not much good any more." "That's right," agreed Sue. "I want to find my dear Sallie Malinda all in one piece." "And with his eyes blazing," added Bunny. "Oh, of course, with her eyes going," said Sue. "Now for a last slide, and then we'll go out and see if daddy has come."
"Then if we don't find your Teddy, Sue, I'll have to get you another." "But I'd rather have Sallie Malinda!" "I know, dear, but you can name the new one that." "Sue's Teddy's had lots of adventures," said Bunny. "The hermit took her, and now she's lost." "Well, I'm not going to give up yet," said his sister, as she looked carefully along the road. "But what can have become of Dix?" asked Mrs.
Scarce half a twelvemonth elapsed, ere the retiring disposition of Malinda Jane seemed to shrink into even greater seclusion. I frequently found her powerful mind wandering, and her eyes fixed on vacancy. In our evening walks, which invariably preceded retiring for the night, she leaned heavily on my arm.
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.
Bunny thanked her, but it was easy to see he did not care much for such a girl's toy. "My Sallie Malinda Teddy bear is as good as your toy train," said Sue. "She's better for I have her and you haven't your train of cars." "Well, I'm glad you like her," said Bunny. "But maybe your Teddy will go away in the night just as my train did."
The little girl told him what had happened. "Sallie Malinda gone!" cried Mother Brown. "That's too bad! She must have been jostled off when the auto went over a bump. I think we'll have to go back and look for her," she said to her husband. 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.
"Look, Uncle Tad, you've turned on her eyes!" And, surely enough, the electric eyes of Sallie Malinda were glowing brightly. Uncle Tad must have stepped on the switch button in the toy's back and turned it on. "But I guess she's all right," went on Sue, as she turned off the switch and then turned it on again to see that it was working as it should. "You didn't hurt her, Uncle Tad," she said.
I will look farther." But Eagle Feather insisted on some of the head men's huts being searched, and this was done. But no doll was found. "Oh, dear! Where can Sallie Malinda be?" half sobbed Sue. "Never mind," said her father. "If you can't find your bear, and Bunny's cars are still gone, in two weeks I'll get you new ones. But I think they will come back as mysteriously as they went away.
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