-organ music," Teddy said.

"Course he wouldn't play when he came to get Jack!" exclaimed Jan, with
tears in her eyes. "Oh, Ted, go for the police! The hand-organ man has
taken our monkey! Oh dear!"

CHAPTER XIV

TURNOVER AND SKYROCKET

Perhaps it would have been better for the Curlytops to have run into the
house and have told their mother about the missing monkey. But neither
Janet nor Teddy thought of this, because they were so excited over the
news that Mrs. Johnson gave them--the news that Jack had been taken away
by a hand-organ man.

"We've got to get him back!" cried Teddy.

"Of course!" agreed Janet. "It won't be half a circus without a monkey in
it."

"Come on!" called Ted, and out of the yard he ran, followed by Janet. The
Curlytops took one look to make sure that Trouble was safe before going
away and leaving him. The little fellow was playing with Turnover and
Skyrocket. He would do that for a long time.

Out of the yard and down the street ran the little boy and girl,
thinking only of getting their monkey back.

"Did he go this way?" Teddy called to Mrs. Johnson, who was watching him
and his sister.

"Yes, right down that street," answered the mother of Baby Ruth. "But you
had better not chase after him. He might not give Jack back to you, and
he might be cross, and maybe it wasn't your monkey he had at all,
Curlytops!"

But Teddy and Janet did not stay to hear all this. They hurried on, Teddy
a little ahead of his sister, because, being a boy and a year older, he
could go faster. But every now and then he stopped to wait for her. They
turned the corner of a street, and Teddy, being in the lead, had the
first glimpse down it.

"Do you see him?" gasped Janet, hurrying up to the side of her brother.

"No, he isn't here," was the answer.

Mr. Anderson, who left groceries at the home of the Curlytops, came along
just then in the delivery wagon.

"Whoa!" he called to his horse. And then, seeing that Teddy and Janet
were worried about something, he asked them: "Have you lost your little
brother?" Mr. Anderson knew how often Trouble ran away.

"No, sir," answered Teddy. "We're looking for our monkey."

"And the hand-organ man," added Janet.

"Monkey? Hand-organ man?" exclaimed Mr. Anderson. "Are you going to give
a party, and do you want the hand-organ man to play at it, and the monkey
to do tricks?"

"Oh, no, this is our own pet monkey," exclaimed Janet.

"The hand-organ man to