to go back. They walked on and on, and finally Bunny, stopping in front
of a big house said:

"This is where Aunt Lu lives."

"But where is Wopsie?" asked Sue. "Why isn't she here?"

"Oh, maybe she went inside," replied Bunny. "Come on, we'll go in the
elevator and have a ride."

They went into the marble hall. It looked just like the one in Aunt Lu's
apartment. And there was the same colored elevator boy in his queer
little cage. Bunny and Sue went to the entrance.

"Where yo' want to go?" asked the elevator boy.

"To Aunt Lu's," answered Bunny.

"What floor she done lib on?" the boy asked.

"I--I don't know," Bunny said. "I--I forgot the number."

"What's her name?"

"Aunt Lu," said Sue.

"No, I mean her last name?"

"Oh, it's Baker," said Bunny. "Aunt Lu Baker."

The colored elevator boy shook his head.

"They don't no Miss Baker lib heah!" he said. "I done guess yo' chilluns
done got in de wrong house!"

CHAPTER X

IN THE DUMB WAITER

Bunny Brown looked at his sister Sue, and his sister Sue looked at Bunny
Brown. Then they both looked at the colored elevator boy. He was smiling
at them, so Bunny and Sue were not as frightened as they might otherwise
have been.

"Isn't this where Aunt Lu lives?" asked Bunny.

"Nope. Not if her name's Baker," answered the elevator lad. "We sure
ain't got nobody named Baker in heah!" (He meant "here.")

"Oh, Bunny!" cried Sue. "Then we're losted again!"

"Where'd you come from?" asked the colored boy. "Now don't git skeered,
'cause yo' all ain't losted very much I guess. Maybe I kin find where
yo' all belongs. What's de number of, de house where yo' auntie libs?"

"I--I don't know," said Bunny. He had not thought to ask the number of
his aunt's house, nor had he looked to see what the number was over the
door before he and Sue came out. In the country no one ever had numbers
on their houses, and Bellemere was like the country in this way--no
houses had numbers on them.

"Well, what street does your aunt done lib on?" asked the colored boy,
in the funny way he talked.

"I don't know that, either," said Bunny.

"Huh! Den yo' suah _am_ lost!" cried the elevator lad. "But don't yo'
all git skeered!" he said quickly, as he saw tears coming in Sue's brown
eyes. "I guess yo' all ain't losted so very much, yet. Maybe I kin find
yo' aunt's house."

"If you could find Wopsie for us, she could take us there," said Bunny.

"Find who?"

"Wopsie. She's