126 ALL ABOARD FOR SUNRISE LANDS.

“Look here!”’ Rick shouted. “ Why don’t you go to Mr. Inv’s?”

The men smiled blandly and nodding went on. Once they stopped
and patting a dog, made signs to Rick. He was in disgust.

“Lazy fellers!” he bawled. “Don’t stop to fool with that dog.
You don’t half earn your money. Don’t you know Mr. Inw’s place?”

“Tt is not his dog and. we must hunt farther,” they said and
till smiling they trundled forward their small load of a volcano.

Rick was now furious. .

“Tt is [-nu,I-nu! Must I spell it, [-n-—u! Don’t you under-
stand, boobies ?”

On they went, stoppimg now and then to speak to people. Rick
thought to himself, “How hateful these men do look!” The day
‘was quite warm for spring, and these intelligent Japanese had laid
aside their hats, and their half-bald heads went bobbing up and
down like gooseberries rolling over pebbles. Rick thought of Charley
Ross, the Philadelphia boy, and conjectured that these men must
have been poor Charley’s kidnappers, and what if they should kid-
nap him too!

“Stop!’ he yelled.

The men now were not so smiling, for they were tired of the
game. They again stopped, and, began to jabber away at Rick
like parrots. He in his turn was thoroughly vexed, and was spitting
out his anger at them. He began to doubt whether it would be so
easy to get through Japan if all the people were such boors as these,
and how he longed for Uncle Nat. A crowd had now collected,
and things looked squally.

In the mean time, Uncle Nat and the doctor had returned to the
hotel and there were inquiries at once made for the missing Rick.
A servant reported that Rick had been seen in a jinrikisha moving:
off from the hotel-door.