“All right,” agreed the little fellow.
They were just going into the candy store, having stopped at the grocer’s with the message from Miss Pompret, when Flossie and Freddie caught sight of a ragged boy and girl, about their own age, standing with their faces close against the glass of the show window of the toy and candy shop.
“Freddie, look!” whispered Flossie.
“They’re poor!” whispered Freddie. “Let’s take them!”
Flossie nodded in agreement, and then they went up to the ragged children who were eagerly gazing in the window, which was partly filled with Christmas toys.
“Come on with us,” said Freddie, tapping the other boy on the shoulder.
Quickly the boy turned, doubled up his fist, and, thrusting the ragged girl behind him, he exclaimed:
“Now you let us alone! We wasn’t doin’ nothin’! We was just lookin’ in the winder, an’ that’s what it’s for! You let us alone!”
CHAPTER IV—BERT IN DANGER
Flossie and Freddie were so surprised at the strange action on the part of the ragged boy that they hardly knew what to do. Flossie looked at Freddie and Freddie looked at his sister, and then they looked at the strange boy and girl.