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"A real party?" the big girl wanted to know.
Bunny looked at Sue. He was going to let her answer.
"Yes, it will be a real party," said Sue, "and we'll have all real things to eat. Will you come?"
"Will we come?" cried the big girl. "Well, I guess we will!"
"Even a policeman couldn't keep us away!" said the boy who had wanted to feel the ice-cream, to see if it was melting.
"Then you can all come to my Aunt Lu's house to-morrow afternoon," Sue went on. "I'll tell her you're coming."
"Where is it?" asked the big girl.
Sue felt in her pocket and brought out one of Aunt Lu's cards, which Miss Baker had given the little girl in case she became lost.
"That's our address," said Sue. "You come there to-morrow afternoon, and we'll have a real party. I'm pleased to have met you," and with a polite bow, saying what she had often heard her mother say on parting from a new friend, Sue turned away.
"Will you an' your brother be there?" the big, ragged girl wanted to know.
"Yes," said Bunny. "I'll be there, and so will Wopsie."
"Is she Wopsie?" asked the big girl, pointing to the colored piccaninny.
"Dat's who I is!" Wopsie exclaimed. "But dat's only mah make-believe name. Mah real one am Sallie Jefferson. Dat name was on de card pinned to me, but de address was tored off."
"Well, Sallie or Wopsie, it's all de same to me," said the big girl. "We'll see you at de party!"
"Yes, please all come," said Sue once more. Then she walked on with Wopsie and her brother.
"Say, Miss Sue, is yo' all sartin suah 'bout dis yeah party?" asked Wopsie, as they turned the corner.
"Why, of course we're sure about it, Wopsie."
"Well, yo' auntie don't know nuffin 'bout it."
"She will, as soon as we get home, for I'll tell her," said Sue. "It will be fun; won't it, Bunny?"
"I -- I guess so."
Bunny did not know quite what to make of what Sue had done. Getting up a real party in such a hurry was a new idea for him. Still it might be all right.
"It's a good thing I lost my kite," said Bunny. "'Cause if I hadn't we couldn't have seen those children to invite to the party."
"Yes," said Sue, "it was real nice. We'll have lots of fun at the party. I hope they'll all come."
"Oh, dey'll come all right!" said Wopsie, shaking her head. "But I don't jest know what yo' Aunt Lu's gwine t' say."
"Oh, that will be all right," answered Sue easily.
When the children reached home, they rode up in the elevator with Henry, and Sue found her aunt in the library with Mother Brown.
"Aunt Lu," began Sue, "have you got lots of cake and jam tarts and jelly tarts in the house?"
"Why, I think Mary baked a cake to-day," Sue. "What did you ask that for?"
"And can you buy real ice-cream at a store near here, or make it?" Sue wanted to know.
"Why, yes, child, but what for?" Aunt Lu was puzzled.
"Then it's all right," Sue went on. "You're going to give a real play-party to a lot of ragged children here to-morrow afternoon. I invited them. I gave them your card. And now, please, I want a jam tart, or a piece of cake, for myself. And then we must tell Henry when the ragged children come, to let them come up in t...
Chapter XXII
In The Park
Aunt Lu looked first at Sue, and then at Bunny Brown. Mother Brown did the same thing. Then they looked at Wopsie. Finally Aunt Lu, in a sort of faint, and far-away voice asked:
"What -- what does it all mean, Sue?"
Sue leaned back in her chair.
"It's just like I told you," she said. "You know Bunny's kite got away, and we ran after it. We didn't find it, but we saw some poor children having a play-party, with broken pieces of dishes on a box, same as me and Bunny plays sometimes. We watched them, and I guess they thought we was makin' fun of 'em."
"Yes," said Bunny, "that's what they did."
"But we wasn't makin' fun," said Sue. "We just wanted to watch, and when they saw us I asked them to come here to-morrow to a real party."
"Oh, Sue, you never did!" cried her mother.
"Yes'm, I did," returned Sue. "I gave 'em Aunt Lu's card, and they're coming, and we're going to have real cake and real ice-cream. That one girl can cook real, or make-believe, sausages, but we don't need to have them, 'less you want to, Aunt Lu! Only I think it would be nice to have some jam tarts, and I'd like one n...
Aunt Lu and Mrs. Brown again looked at one another. First they smiled, and then they laughed.
"Well," said Aunt Lu, after a bit. "I suppose since Sue has invited them I'll have to give them a party. But I wish you had let me know first, Sue, before you asked them."
"Why, I didn't have time, Aunt Lu. I -- I just had to get up the real party right away, you see."
"Oh, yes, I see."
So Aunt Lu told Mary, her cook, and her other servants, to get ready for the party Sue had planned. For it would never do to have the big girl, and the little boys and girls, come all the way to Aunt Lu's house, and then not give them something to eat, especially after Sue had promised it to them.
Bunny and Sue could hardly wait for the next day to come, so eager were they to have the party. They were up early in the morning, and they wanted to help make the jam and jelly tarts, but Aunt Lu said Mary could better do that alone. Wopsie helped dust the rooms, though, and she lifted up to the mantel several pretty ...
"Dem chilluns might not mean t' do it," said the little colored girl, "but dey might, accidental like, knock ober some vases an' smash 'em. Den Miss Lu would feel bad."
Bunny and Sue spoke to Henry, the elevator boy, about the ragged children coming to the party.