ent and see if you can't
find Sallie Jane."

"Her name is Sallie _Malinda_," said Sue, with some indignation.

"Well, take a look around for Sallie Malinda Teddy Bear Brown while I'm
getting dressed," said her father.

The children soon slipped into their clothes, and then began to look
around the tent, inside and out. Sue thought perhaps she had left her
Teddy bear with its flashing electrical eyes in a chair near the
kitchen-tent table. She had had her there after her own supper. She even
pointed out where she had put a small plate of cracker crumbs near the
Teddy bear. The plate of crumbs was still there, but the doll was gone.

"We'll look outside," said Bunny; and when he and Sue were outside the
tent, waiting for their father, Bunny began walking slowly along, bent
over as though he had a peddler's pack on his back.

"What are you doing that for?" asked Sue in surprise. "We aren't playing
any game."

"I know it. But I'm looking for the marks of the bear's tracks in the
mud, just as Eagle Feather looked for the hoof prints of his lost cow in
the sand. He found his cow that way, and maybe we'll find Sallie Malinda
this way."

"But his cow was bigger than my Teddy bear, and made bigger tracks."

"That doesn't matter. I've been talking to the Indians about trailing
animals this way, and you can trail a squirrel as easily as an elephant
if you only know how to look for the feet marks. See, Sue!" and Bunny
pointed to marks in the soft earth. "Aren't those the prints of your
Teddy bear's feet?"

Sue looked to where Bunny pointed. There were marks plainly enough, but
in a minute Sue knew what they were.

"Why, that's where Splash, our dog, walked," said the little girl.

"Oh, so it is," agreed Bunny. "Well, I made a mistake that time. We'll
try again."

So the children went on, seeking for marks of the toy bear's paws, until
Mr. Brown came out.

"It's of no use to look that way, children," he said. "If Sue's bear is
missing some one took it away--it never walked, for it couldn't."

"That's what I said!" cried Sue.

"But how did it get away?" asked Bunny.

"Somebody must have taken it. The same one who took your train of cars.
We must look farther off than just around the tent."

"Say, Daddy, do you s'pose some of the Indians could have done it?"
asked Sue in a whisper.

"I hardly think so," answered Mr. Brown. "Still, they are not all as
honest as Eagle Feather. We'll have a look around their camp."