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CHAPTER XXIV
"WHO IS THERE?"
Sue did not run into the cave after her brother Bunny. She stood, hugging her doll close to her, under a big, evergreen tree, so that only a few drops of rain splashed on her.
Bunny Brown, standing in the "front door" of the cave, as he called it, looked at his sister.
"Come on in, Sue!" he called. "It's nice here, and you can't get wet at all."
"I—I don't want to," Sue answered.
"Why not?" Bunny wanted to know.
"'Cause," and that was all Sue would say. Then it began to rain harder, and the drops even splashed down through the thick branches of the evergreen tree.
"Oh, come on!" cried BunnY. "It's nice here, and dry, Sue. Why won't you come?"
"'Cause I don't like those robbers!" an-
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