CHAPTER 2
CHAPTER 2
"Kidnapped!" Ruth Rose gasped.
Everyone in the crowd began talking at once. Officer Fallon ran to talk to Irene.
"Where's Winnie?' Nate asked. "I want to see Winnie!"
"Winnie has gone away for a little while," Ruth Rose told her little brother.
"Where?" the four-year-old insisted.
Ruth Rose put her arm around Nate's shoulders. "We don't know yet," she said.
Officer Fallon stepped up to the microphone. "Folks, you might as well go home," he said.
"We have every re
