“There, there, in that empty house!” Cassy dragged Rock along towards the corner, and crouching down by a little window at the side of the house, she said, “Are you in there, Jerry?”
For answer a face and form appeared at the window, and there was Jerry sure enough.
A NEW ACQUAINTANCE
CHAPTER IV
A NEW ACQUAINTANCE
“Oh, Jerry, Jerry, how did you get in there?” cried Cassy. “Can you get out?”
“They fastened the door. I’ve banged and banged, but I couldn’t budge it. Gee! but I’m glad you came. The door is ’round at the other side.”
Rock was already on his way to it, and after climbing a fence he was able to get it unfastened and to set the prisoner free. Cassy waited impatiently at the gate, till Jerry with a mite of a puppy in his arms, came out. The boy was battered and dirty, and bore the marks of a hard fight.
“Oh, you poor dear,” Cassy exclaimed, “how long have you been in there? Oh, Jerry, you have been fighting.”
“Of course I have,” he said grimly; “I wasn’t going to let a parcel of great big lunks set upon one poor little puppy without trying to take his part.”
“Good for you!” cried Rock, putting his arm across the shoulders of the smaller boy. “Tell us all about it, Jerry.”