No one dreamed that he was lost again.

Chip was with the Happy Family and did not know that the Kid had left the ranch that afternoon.

The Little Doctor had taken it for granted that he had gone with his daddy, as he so frequently did; and with his daddy and the whole Happy Family to look after him, she never once doubted that he was perfectly safe, even among the fire-fighters.

She supposed he would be up on the seat beside Patsy, probably, proudly riding on the wagon that hauled the water barrels.
The Little Doctor had troubles of her own to occupy her mind She had ridden hurriedly up the hill and straight to the shack of the sick woman, when first she discovered that the prairie was afire.

And she had found the sick woman lying on a makeshift bed on the smoking, black area that was pathetically safe now from fire because there was nothing more to burn.
"Little black shack's all burnt up! Everything's black now.