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Bunny and Sue were quite proud to load up the basket cart with boxes and packages and start out to leave the orders at the different houses. Mrs. Golden did not grow any younger or more active, and there were times when she could hardly get around the store. At such times, if Bunny and Sue had to be out with the pony cart, Charlie Star would come in and be a clerk. When things needed to be delivered on the other side of Main Street, along which many automobiles were driven, then Bunker Blue was called on. He gladly drove the "pony express" as it was laughingly called, and many customers were served this way. But in spite of this increase in trade the worried look did not leave Mrs. Golden's face, and, more than once, Bunny and Sue again saw her counting up her money and looking at bills she owed Mr. Flynt. "Will you have to sell the place now?" asked Bunny one day, coming in with Sue to help tend store. The two previous days had been busy ones, when many customers had bought things. "Well, I don't know about it, Bunny, my dear," was the answer. "More money is coming in, to be sure, but things cost so much I make hardly any profit. Things still look black. But don't worry. You and Sue are a big help. If Philip only gets that legacy, then I'll be all right!" "I hope he does!" said Bunny Brown. Several customers came in and the children helped Mrs. Golden wait on them. Then one woman wanted flour, sugar, and potatoes sent to her house on the other side of Main Street, a place where Bunny and Sue had never been. "But we'll load the things in the pony cart," said Bunny to Sue, "and drive to our house. Bunker Blue is going to be there, for he's going to cut the grass, and he can drive across Main Street to Mrs. Larken's house." "That will be all right," said Mrs. Golden. "It's very kind of you to help me this way." The children started out with Toby, and they were almost at their own home when they heard a great shouting and racket behind them. "Oh, Bunny!" cried Sue, "maybe we dropped something out of the cart and they're calling to us to pick it up." Bunny gave one look back over the way they had come. Then he pulled hard on Toby's reins and shouted: "No, we didn't drop anything, but here comes the fire engine!" And, surely enough, dashing down the street was the shiny new engine that had lately been bought for Bellemere. "Oh, pull over to one side!" cried Sue, clasping Bunny's arm. "Pull
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