's all de same to me," said the big girl.
"We'll see you at de party!"

"Yes, please all come," said Sue once more. Then she walked on with
Wopsie and her brother.

"Say, Miss Sue, is yo' all sartin suah 'bout dis yeah party?" asked
Wopsie, as they turned the corner.

"Why, of course we're sure about it, Wopsie."

"Well, yo' auntie don't know nuffin 'bout it."

"She will, as soon as we get home, for I'll tell her," said Sue. "It
will be fun; won't it, Bunny?"

"I--I guess so."

Bunny did not know quite what to make of what Sue had done. Getting up a
real party in such a hurry was a new idea for him. Still it might be all
right.

"It's a good thing I lost my kite," said Bunny. "'Cause if I hadn't we
couldn't have seen those children to invite to the party."

"Yes," said Sue, "it was real nice. We'll have lots of fun at the party.
I hope they'll all come."

"Oh, dey'll _come_ all right!" said Wopsie, shaking her head. "But I
don't jest know what yo' Aunt Lu's gwine t' say."

"Oh, that will be all right," answered Sue easily.

When the children reached home, they rode up in the elevator with Henry,
and Sue found her aunt in the library with Mother Brown.

"Aunt Lu," began Sue, "have you got lots of cake and jam tarts and jelly
tarts in the house?"

"Why, I think Mary baked a cake to-day," Sue. "What did you ask that
for?"

"And can you buy real ice-cream at a store near here, or make it?" Sue
wanted to know.

"Why, yes, child, but what for?" Aunt Lu was puzzled.

"Then it's all right," Sue went on. "You're going to give a real
play-party to a lot of ragged children here to-morrow afternoon. I
invited them. I gave them your card. And now, please, I want a jam tart,
or a piece of cake, for myself. And then we must tell Henry when the
ragged children come, to let them come up in the elevator. They're
little, just like me, and they never could walk up all the stairs. I
hope your real play-party will be nice, Aunt Lu," and Sue, smoothing out
her dress, sat down in a chair.

CHAPTER XXII

IN THE PARK

Aunt Lu looked first at Sue, and then at Bunny Brown. Mother Brown did
the same thing. Then they looked at Wopsie. Finally Aunt Lu, in a sort
of faint, and far-away voice asked:

"What--what does it all mean, Sue?"

Sue leaned back in her chair.

"It's just like I told you," she said. "You know Bunny's kite got away,
and we ran after it. We didn't find it, but we saw some poor children
havin