Before she had time to tumble over she sank again with a thump.

The great hairy bear, looking twice as large in that room as he appeared in the open air, came out from under the foot of the bed, and as I dangled the old rubber shoe in front of his nose he would have seized upon it if his jaws had not been strapped together.

I got hold of the chain and conducted him quietly outside, amid the cheers and hand-clapping of Percy and Genevieve.
I chained Orso to a post of the fence, and, removing his muzzle, I gave him the old rubber shoe.
"Shall I bring him some more ?" cried Genevieve, full of zeal in good works.

But I assured her that one would do for the present.
I now hurried into the house to find out what had happened to the persons and property of the McKenna sisters.
"Where are the other two ?" cried Genevieve, who was darting from one room to another; "the bear can't have swallowed them." It was not long before Percy discovered the two missing sisters in the cellar.

They were seated on the ground with their aprons over their heads.
It was some time before quiet was restored in that household.