"I wonder if they could be the children from the Happy Home where I used to live?" mused Racky.  "I wonder if they could be Nat and Weezie, with Rodney and Addie?  And perhaps that dog was Thump. But--no--they would not be so far from home in the storm.  They must be some other children.  I will wait a bit, and then I will knock on the door.  The little old woman may be kind enough to take me in."