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She came downstairs, and met him at the door. "Such a disaster," she said, and handed him a telegram. Kew stood aghast, as she meant him to. No disaster is ever so great as it is before you know what it is. But Kew ought to have known Anonyma's disasters by experience. "Russ's wife has appeared." "Why should she be introduced as a disaster?" asked Kew, with a sigh of relief.
Just as she was dropping to sleep and after her companions were already in dreamland Rose saw the door of the room pushed open. The moon had risen, and Rose recognized Russ's tousled head poked in the open door. "What do you want?" she demanded in a whisper. "Oh, Russ! there isn't another fire, is there?" "No! Hush! I just thought of something."
"Simp Wolley!" whispered Alice, in tense tones to Ruth. "It's that man who was after Russ's patent." "Then don't let him see you." "I won't no danger. They're going out now. Come on!" "Where?" asked Ruth, as Alice reached for her gloves. "We must go to warn Russ." "But we haven't eaten what we ordered," objected Ruth, pointing to the food, hardly touched, on the table.
"You're always disappointing me, Rose," he murmured. "But Rose is right, Laddie," said Russ. "And there are other wings that have no feathers." "What wings?" grumbled Laddie. "I know!" cried Vi suddenly. "Airplane wings! They haven't any feathers." "But they are no more like real wings," complained Rose, "than Russ's dancing step." "No," said the oldest Bunker boy. "I mean bat's wings.
Perhaps the fish had been asleep down there by the edge of the imbedded stone. At any rate it was not quick enough to escape Russ Bunker's darting hand. "I got it!" yelled Russ, in delight. He tried to seize fast hold upon the body of the catfish, but the fish shot forward with a wriggle that slapped its tail against Russ's hand. Russ plunged forward, trying to hold it.
Then Alice broke in. "They're after your moving picture machine patent, Russ! They're going to get it to-night Simp Wolley! You've got to hurry!" Between them the girls quickly told what they had overheard. Russ's eyes snapped. "So that's the game; is it?" he cried. "Well, I'll stop them! I'm mighty glad you told me. My patent model, the drawings and everything are at Burton's machine shop.
According to Russ's mind, that Daddy Bunker had promised to help find the lost boy seemed conclusive that Sneezer must be found. He and Rose began eagerly to tell Mammy June what they had already done to make it positive that Ebenezer Caliper Spotiswood Meiggs would not come back to the burned cabin some day and go away, thinking that his old mother was no longer alive.
But that's the one I had reference to. Did you notice him particularly?" "Not very. Why?" "Do you think you ever saw him before?" Ruth put the question in such a peculiar way that Alice looked at her sharply. "You don't mean he was one of the men who tried to get Russ's patent; do you?" "No. I can't, for the life of me, though, think where I have seen that man before, but I'm sure I have.
"I'll soon have you out!" cried Dick. He was as good as his word. Reaching down in, he loosened the barrel-stave snowshoe from Russ's foot, and soon pulled the little boy up straight. Then he carried him to the porch. "I wouldn't go in deep places with those queer things on my feet any more," said Grandma Ford. "No, we won't," promised Russ.
I have been the more careful to give the substance of Mr. Russ's sermon, as nearly as I can remember it, forasmuch as it hath given offence to some who did listen to it.
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