she told Bob to hurry.

"For I know the other mothers are as anxious as I have been," she said.
"We have had a terrible day. The telephone wires are all down, and my
husband has been to Miss May's school and to the house of every child
in Jessie's class, trying to find some trace of her. He is out hunting
now."

Around and around Mr. Parkney drove, and at every house they stopped
Bob carried in a sleeping child. How glad the mothers were, so glad
they wanted to hug Bob, and some of them did. At last every one was
safe home but Sunny Boy, and then Mr. Parkney made the horses go as
fast as they could. When he stopped them at the Horton's house, both
he and Bob got out and went in with Sunny Boy.

"Mrs. Horton, here's Sunny Boy!" cried Harriet, when she answered the
ring at the doorbell and found Sunny Boy standing there with the
Parkneys.

Daddy Horton came down the front stairs three steps at a time and
grabbed Sunny. Mother Horton came running down after him, and she was
so glad to see Sunny Boy that she cried just a little--the way she had
cried in New York when he was lost and then found again.

She held him in her lap all the time Mr. Parkney and Bob were
explaining how they came to bring him home. When Mr. Horton tried to
thank them, Mr. Parkney stopped him.

"I'm only trying to do for your family one-tenth part of what you've
done for me and mine," he said, though Sunny Boy was so sleepy he