"I knows better than that! I can hear Master Puggy's voice a mile off."
"And you won't be away very long?"
"I'll be as quick as I can."
Cook was in a good temper. She packed up a basket and gave it to Susy, and Christina saw her running down the drive with it.
But she was away a long time, and when she came back was flushed with excitement.
"Oh! It's first-rate, Miss Tina; 'tis just like real battle. I was nearly ketched by Master Dawn's soldiers; they chased me, but I hid in the bushes, and they couldn't find me nowheres. They called out that I was a spy, but I nipped round and laid the basket at Master Puggy's feet. He was awful pleased. And then comin' back I had another race past Master Dawn hisself. He is in one part of the wood, and Master Puggy is in the other, and Master Dawn have got six prisoners!"
"Susy, those two poor little boys ought to have some dinner. I've been thinking about them. They oughtn't to be locked up in that cupboard so long. I shouldn't like it."
"I'll take them some dinner. Are we going to have ours up here?"
"Yes, Puggy said we were to, and you must fetch it, Susy, from the kitchen; for we're not to let any of the maids come near us, the boys said."
So when Susy brought the dinner up, she took a good share of it down to the cupboard, and when she carefully opened it, she found one of the little boys crying.