ut where the stalled west-bound train, on which rode the Bunker family, had stopped.

ngers talking with daddy and some of the train crew. Finally Mun Bun expressed a desire to go back into the car, and Rose went wi

, people!" he shouted. "We're g

and Mun Bun disappearing up the high steps, and he presumed Laddie and Violet were ahead. The train had started and

ere are they?" The train began to move

e wasn't a chick nor child in sight. I was one of the last passengers to get aboard. The section men had even

her Bunker, without being reliev

re. They got into the wrong car by mistake

twins. As we quite well know, Vi and Laddie were not aboard the train at all, and the others foun

her Bunker declared again, and this

hough, ordinarily, she wasn't much of a cry-baby. She wanted to know if they had to go on t

ured the little girl. "They aren't re

to run back a few miles to where there was a cross-over switch, and then the train would steam back again into the

spers. Although Russ and Rose spoke cheerfully about it to the other children, they we

e run off with them," whi

es or tramps anywhere about.

ff," said Russ decidedly. "Maybe they wi

er traffic so that the passenger train could get around the landslide. Mr. Bunker and Russ went out into the vestibule so as to jump off the train the moment it

e road a way. But there was no sign of Vi and Laddie. Mr. Bunker saw the p

ddy Bunker didn't even see the chipmunk Laddie and his sister had chased. Daddy Bunker shouted and shout

" called the conductor of the train. "We can't wa

and hating dreadfully to go back and tell Mother Bunker and the

disappeared to was a mystery. And just what he should do to tr

weep as Margy did, and as Rose herself was inclined to do.

have to get off the train at the next station,

t see any better plan. Of course they could not go on

ad grown fond of Violet, in spite of her inquisitiveness, and all admired Laddie Bunker. It seemed a re

Russ. "But what happens isn't often as bad as this. I d

chasing a chipmunk until that train whistle had sounded. How the twins did run then ac

!" shrieked Vi, when

n are gone too,

handcar on which the section hands had traveled, were out of

sobs. "We ran away and lost mother and daddy and the ot

them," Laddie said more stur

ce," complained his sister. "We

y, "how do you s'pose that

ng thing. If the train had gone on to Cowboy Jack's, it s

ver saw the wings on that engine, did you? And if the engine did

ldn't tell you all that. Maybe they had some way of

l we do?" began Vi, al

I guess daddy will miss us and get off a

suppose

and thoughtful father. "I am sure he will, Vi. Daddy wouldn't lea

ten since breakfast, and although it was not

th scorn. "We haven't been lost from the train l

e will starve here if the tr

something from the candy boy. You 'member the cand

for you and two for me. I guess I wouldn't sta

ithout much sympathy. "Now we must climb down

not on it? And are you sure he'll come back looking for us? Shall we get supper, d

ions. Nor did he have much idea of how Daddy Bunker was going to stop the train, which he