“And you can’t remember any other home, either of you?” asked Ruth, with pity.
“Huh! we ’member just the same things. Our ages is just alike, they be,” said Willie, with scorn.
“They have you there, Ruth,” chuckled Heavy.
Ruth Fielding was really interested in the two youngsters. “And you are all alone in the world?” she pursued.
“Nope. We gotter sister.”
“Oh! so you said.”
“And it’s so, too. She used ter be at the ’sylum,” explained Willie. “But they sent her off to live with somebody. And we was tried out by a lady and a gentleman, too; but we was too much work for the lady. We made too much extry washin’,” said Willie, solemnly.
“My goodness me!” exclaimed Ruth, suddenly. “What are your names?”
“I’m Willie; he’s Dickie.”
“But Willie and Dickie what?” demanded the startled Ruth.