e clothes closet when she suddenly saw
something that caused her to stop and to cry out:
"Oh, what made it move?"
"What move?" asked Uncle Frank, who had followed her and the Curlytops
in. "What did you see move?"
"My big suitcase," replied Aunt Jo. "See, it's there against the wall,
but I'm sure I saw it move."
"Did any of you touch it?" asked Uncle Frank.
"No," answered Aunt Jo; and Ted and Jan said the same thing.
"What is it?" Mother Martin asked, coming into the room. "Did you find
him?" she asked anxiously. "He isn't in my room, nor in Ted's or
Janet's. Oh, where can he be?"
"Look! It's moving again!" cried Aunt Jo.
She pointed to the suitcase. It was an extra large one, holding almost
as much as a trunk, and it stood against the wall of her room.
As they looked they all saw the cover raised a little, and then the
whole suitcase seemed to move slightly.
"Maybe it's Skyrocket, our dog," said Ted. "He likes to crawl into
places like that to sleep."
"Or maybe it's Turnover, our cat," added Janet.
Uncle Frank hurried across the room to the suitcase. Before he could
reach it the cover was suddenly tossed back and there, curled up inside,
where he had been sleeping, was the lost Trouble!
"Oh, Trouble, what a fright you gave us!" cried his mother.
"Were you there all the while?" Aunt Jo demanded.
Trouble sat up in the suitcase, which was plenty big enough for him when
it was empty. He rubbed his eyes and smiled at those gathered around
him.
"Iss. I been s'eepin' here long time," he said.
"Well, of all things!" cried Aunt Jo. "I couldn't imagine what made the
suitcase move, and there it was Trouble wiggling in his sleep."
"How did you come to get into it?" asked Uncle Frank.
"Nice place. I like it," was all the reason Trouble could give.
He still had on his jacket and rubber boots which his mother had put on
him when he said he wanted to go out and play in the snow with Jan and
Ted.
"And, instead of doing that he must have come upstairs when I wasn't
looking and crawled in here," said Mrs. Martin. "You mustn't do such a
thing again, Baby William."
"Iss, I not do it. I'se hungry!"
"No wonder! It's past his supper time!" cried Aunt Jo.
"Did you find him?" called the anxious voice of Daddy Martin from the
front door. He had just come in. "He wasn't down at the Simpsons'," he
went on.
"He's here all right!" answered Uncle Frank, for Mrs. Martin was hugging
Trouble so h
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