Two Little Finns by Mary E. Ropes

FOR two long, weary hours Tonie and Blonda waited behind the boulder / by the lake side. Once only, at the end of the first half-hour, Tonie / stole into the pine wood at the back of the house, and, under the deep / shadow of the trees, glanced up at the windows, and saw a light in one / after another, as the men pursued their search for the money.

When the light flashed through the window of Blonda's little room, the / boy noticed that the glass was broken away. Close to the casement, a / tall birch tree reared its stately form, and Tonie understood at once / how Freskel had contrived to get into the house, and wondered at his / ingenuity and courage. To come to the help of the besieged children, he / must have climbed the long, straight, silvery stem like a squirrel, and / then swung out from a bough until he could grasp the window ledge, gain / a footing there, and dash through the glass.