The little fellow carefully emptied the pail his brother had filled.
Then with it in his hand he went slowly toward the spring. He leaned
over, but longer arms than his were needed to reach the pail down into
the bubbling water.
Trouble reached and stretched and reached again, and then---
"Splash!"
Baby William had fallen in!
CHAPTER IX
TED FINDS A CAVE
Janet and Ted returned from looking at the pretty scarlet bird just in
time to see what happened to Trouble. They saw him fall into the
spring.
"Oh!" cried Janet, clasping her hands. "Oh, look!"
"He'll be drowned!" yelled Ted, and then he ran as fast as he could
toward the place where he had last seen his little brother, for Baby
William was not in sight now. He was down in the water.
Perhaps Trouble might not have come to any harm, more than to get wet
through by the time Ted reached him. Perhaps the little fellow might
not have been drowned. At any rate, no harm came to him, even though
Jan and her brother did not get there in time to help.
The two Curlytops, their fuzzy hair fluttering in the wind, were half
way to the spring when they saw coming from the bushes a ragged man.
"There he is!" cried Janet.
"Who?" asked Ted.
"The man who--talked to me--while I was picking flowers," and Jan's
voice came in gasps, for she was getting out of breath from having run
so hard.
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