Me and Race had just finished selling our papes and we're headed to Tibby's to meet Spot and Angel as well as Bailey and Jack. As we walked down the sunny, busy street we talked about nothing in particular and enjoyed ourselves. When we got to Tibby's there was the usual crowd of newsies but we found Jack sitting at a table watching us approach.

"Have ye seen any sign of Angel or Spot?" He asked us as we sat down next to him.

"No, is dere sumthin the matter?" Race asked.

"Deyre not here and I just was wonderin if ye seen em around." He commented as he looked up as Bailey came to our table.

"None o de odda newsies have seen em eidda." she said to Jack. "Hey Doodles, hey Race."

"Hi.", I replied. "Maybe dey're just runnin a little late."

"Probaly, ye know it is Spot." Race commented, "No manners."

Jack nodded with a laugh. "Yer probaly right. Let's wait a while."

So we waited but Spot and Angel never showed up at Tibby's. We had been sitting there for an hour and a quarter talking, with Race telling the occasional raunchy joke just to pass the time. When we actually figured out what time it was we began to get a little worried.

"Ye don't think dey fergot do ya?" I said curious why they still hadn't shown.

"No I don think dey would. Dey was plannin on goin ta Meddas tonight to see da new act." Bailey commented. She looked more worried than everyone else but maybe that was because it was her sister.

"Maybe dey thought we was gonna meet em somewheres else?" Jack suggested. "Why don't we leave and split up to look fer dem? Doodles, Race check de lodgin house. Me an Bailey will check Meddas and anywhere we can look on da way."

"Always the leader." Race said with a smile. "Good thinkin." He added a wink for my benefit.

So we split up saying we'd meet each other back at Tibby's around dinner time hopefully one of us with Angel and Spot. Race and me set out for the lodging house at a brisk pace hoping to find Angel and Spot there. We got there and only a few bored newsies were around. Mush, Bumlets, Pie Eater, and Kid Blink had a poker game going.

"Hey guys." Race said walking over to them.

"Wanna take a hand?" Kid Blink said to him.

"Naw can't.", Race replied. "Were lookin fer Spot an Angel, have ye seen em?"

"Dey commin back taday?" Mush asked.

"Dey were supposed to." Race said.

"I haven't seen em." Bumlets commented.

"Ye think we woulda, if dey came back from Brooklyn taday." Blink said looking thoughtful.

"Yea dey missed lunch wid us." I put in.

"Why don't we check ta see if dey're upstairs?" Mush said.

"Yeah whudd would dey be doin up dere huh?" Blink said snickering.

"Shuddup will ye?" I said irritated because I was worried as well, "Lets just go check ok?"

So we went upstairs the rest of the newsies who had been in the poker game following along. We checked their room and then when they weren't there we checked all the other rooms on the upper floors. As I had suspected they weren't there.

"I guess we should go meet Jack and Bailey now." Race said after we had searched everywhere we could think of in and around the lodging house. To the other newsies still hanging around us I said, "If dey show up here den send Runner fer me or Jack."

I said, "Lets hope they had more luck than we did."

Jack and Bailey showed up at Tibbys about ten minutes after we had gotten there and as they sat down at the table I could tell from their expressions that they had been just as successful as me and Race. "No luck?" Jack asked.

"No, you?" Race asked back.

"Nope. I'm worried about dem." Jack said.

"I think we need to go to Brooklyn to see whudd happened to em." Bailey said looking even more worried than she had earlier that day.

"I guess so.", I said.

"We should probaly go tonight before it gets to late just in case sumthin is really wrong.", Jack decided.

"Alright let's go." Race decided and got up from the table.