Mr. Brown and Uncle Tad went outside the tent. Splash did not go with them. He seemed to think everything was all right.
"Did you find him, Daddy?" asked Bunny, when his father came back.
"No, son. I don't believe there was anyone. I saw where the pans had been knocked down, but that was all."
Bunny was given the drink of water he wanted and soon was asleep. The others, too, became quiet and slept. But in the morning Mrs. Brown, in getting breakfast, found that a piece of bacon and some eggs had been taken from the ice box.
"The eggs and bacon were in the refrigerator all right when I washed up the supper dishes last night," she said. "I counted on having them for breakfast. Now they're gone!"
"Then there must have been someone in our camp, snooping around last night," said Daddy Brown. "It was a tramp, after all. And when he helped himself to something to eat he knocked down the pans. That's how it happened."
