“Didn’t it make a big crash!”
“What’ll the church people say?”
“I guess that window must ’a’ cost a thousand dollars!”
“Who did it?”
This last question was the one most often asked.
But no one seemed to know, or, if any one did, he or she was not telling about it. Nan hurried with Flossie and Freddie to their classroom, and then she hastened back toward her own. Bert was in Nan’s room, and, seeing her brother just before she entered the door, Nan whispered:
“Bert, did you break the church window?”
“No,” he answered, “I didn’t. Of course I didn’t do it!”
“Do you know who did it?”
Bert did not answer for a second or two. For the moment he and Nan were by themselves, just outside their classroom door. Then Bert looked down the corridor and saw Danny Rugg and Sam Todd coming along.