Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III AUNT LU'S INVITATION. "DlNG-DONG!" went the bell in the steeple. "Ding-dong! Ding-dong!" By this time many persons were out in the street. Mr. Gorden, the grocery man, who lived next door to the Brown family, saw Bunny and Sue hurrying along. "Hello!" he cried. "What are you two youngsters doing up at this hour of night?" "We—we came to see the fire," said Bunny. "Where is your pa and your ma?" asked Mr. Gordon. "They—they went on ahead," explained Bunny. "Oh, well, if they're with you I guess it's all right," the grocer said. Of course Mr. and Mrs. Brown were not with Bunny and Sue, and their parents didn't even know that the children were out of theirAt Aunt Lus City Home beds. But Mr. Gordon thought Bunny and Sue were all right, for he hurried on, calling back over his shoulder: "I don't know where the fire is. I think it must be a mistake, for I don't see any bright light . Good-night, Bunny and Sue !u "Good-night!" called the children, and they followed on behind Mr. Gordon. Now they were in front of the church. Before it was quite a crowd of people, but Bunny and Sue seemed to be the only children. At first no one noticed them. Everyone was anxious to know what the ringing of the bell meant. "Where's the fire?" "Who rang the alarm?" "Why didn't they ring the fire bell instead of the church bell?" "Who's ringing it, anyhow?" "And what a funny way to ring it!" Those were some of the remarks and questions Bunny and Sue heard, as they stood in front of the church. "Ding-dong!" the bell kept on ringing. "Ding-dong!" At Aunt L.u's City Home "Well, there's one thing sure," said Mr. Gordon. "There isn't any fire around here, or we'd see it." "Then someone must be ringing the bell for fun," suggested ano...