They looked kindly at him a minute or so and then quietly smiled.
"What a little coward you are, Fred," said Miss Annie; "surely there is nobody who would harm two old creatures like us."
"But they want your money," persisted Fred, still standing in the middle of the floor.
Both ladies were too truthful to deny that they had any, even to such a child, and Lizzie said:
"We haven't enough to tempt anybody to do such a great wrong."
"You can't tell about that, then I 'spose some of those silver dishes must be worth a great deal."
"Yes, so they are," said Annie, "and we prize them the most because our great, great, great-grandfather brought them over the sea a good many years ago, and they have always been in our family."
"But," interposed Lizzie, "we lock them up every night."
"What in?"