SOMETHING UNEXPECTED HAPPENS
means of going about, and when Heidi was alone again she would come out with him as in the old days, and everything would go on in the proper way again. But Peter did not consider, or did not know, that when we do a wrong thing trouble is sure to follow.
Heidi now came running out of the hut and round to the shed. Grandfather was behind with Clara in his arms. The shed stood wide open, the two loose planks having been taken down, and it was quite light inside. Heidi looked into every corner and ran from one end to the other, and then stood still wondering what could have happened to the chair. Grandfather now came up.
"How is this, have you wheeled the chair away, Heidi?” "I have been looking everywhere for it, grandfather; you said it was standing ready outside,” and she again searched each corner of the shed with her eyes.
At that moment the wind, which had risen suddenly, blew open the shed door and sent it banging back against the wall.
“It must have been the wind, grandfather,” exclaimed Heidi, and her eyes grew anxious at this sudden discovery. “Oh! if it has blown the chair all the way down to Dörfli we shall not get it back in time, and shall not be able to go.”
“If it has rolled as far as that it will never come back, for it is in a hundred pieces by now,” said the grandfather, going round the corner and looking down. “But it’s a curious thing to have happened!” he added as he thought over the matter, for the chair would have had to turn a corner before starting down hill.
“Oh, I am sorry,” lamented Clara, “for we shall not be able
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