"
"How can you joke, Charles?" she cried.
"I don't joke. Do you know how high the bulwarks are? A little boy like
Mun Bun could not have fallen overboard. He could not climb the
bulwarks."
"I never thought of that," agreed Mother Bunker more cheerfully.
"He might have fallen into one of the holds; but I don't believe he has
done even that. And there are so many officers and men going up and down
the ladders that I believe he has not even gone off this deck. For
somebody would be sure to see him."
"Of course he didn't go ashore again?" suggested Rose, who with the
other children had returned to the staterooms.
"Oh, no. We had started--were well down the harbor in fact--before he
disappeared."
"Mun Bun is a reg'lar riddle," said Laddie. "He runs away and we can't
find him; and we hunt for him and there he ain't. Then he comes back by
himself--sometimes."
"Is that a riddle?" asked his twin scornfully.
"We-ell, maybe it will be when I get it fixed right."
"I don't think much of it," declared Violet. "And I want to find Mun
Bun."
"Don't you other children get lost on this big ship," said Mother
Bunker. "Don't go off this floor."
"You mean deck, don't you, Mother?" asked Russ politely. "Floors are
decks on board ship. Daddy said so."
"You'd better go and look for him, Russ; and you, too, Rose," the
anxious woman said, as Daddy Bunker strode away.
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