Instead of running around and shying
at strange objects as he usually does, he ran straight to that cape,
and after two or three pulls with his paws, flattened his little gray
body, and like a flash he and the long bushy tail disappeared!
I was
en deshabille, but quickly slipped on a long coat and ran out after
him.
Very near my door was one leading to the kitchen, and so I went on
through, and the very first thing stumbled over a big cat! This made
me more anxious than ever, but instead of catching the beast and
shutting it up, I drove it away. In the kitchen, which was dining room
also, sat the two officers and a disagreeable old man, and at the
farther end was a woman washing dishes. I told them about Billie and
begged them to keep very quiet while I searched for him. Then that old
man laughed. That was quite too much for my overtaxed nerves, and I
snapped out that I failed to see anything funny. But still he laughed,
and said, "Perhaps you don't, but we do." I was too worried and
unhappy to notice what he meant, and continued to look for Billie.
But the little fellow I could not find any place in the house or
outside, where we looked with a lantern. When I returned to my room I
discovered why the old man laughed, for truly I was a funny sight.
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