you something to eat. Sue, you go
in first, and get Henry to take you up in the elevator. Then Henry won't
see me and this man come in, and he can't stop us."

"All right," agreed Sue. So, while Bunny stayed outside, with the ragged
man, Sue went into the hall, and rang the elevator bell.

"Hello!" exclaimed Henry, as he opened the sliding door for Sue.
"Where's Bunny?"

"Oh, he's coming," Sue said.

"Then I'll wait for him," said Henry.

"Oh, no! You needn't!" Sue exclaimed. "Maybe he won't be in for a long
time. I want to go up right away, to tell Aunt Lu she's going to have
company."

"Company!" cried Henry. "If company is comin', I'll wait and take 'em
up."

"No, please don't!" begged Sue. "Take me up right away, and then you can
come down again." She did not want Henry to wait there in the lower
hall, with his elevator, and see Bunny going up the stairs with the
ragged man. Sue wanted to get Henry safely out of the way.

"All right. I'll take you up," promised Henry, and, a second later, Sue
was shooting upward in the elevator car.

"Come on now. We can get in without Henry's seeing us!" called Bunny to
the ragged man. "It's a long walk, but Sue and I did it once."

"Say, I'm much obliged to you," said the tramp, for that's what he was.
"But maybe I'd better not go in. They might arrest me."

"No they won't--not while I'm with you," Bunny said. "I'll tell a
policeman you're going up to my Aunt Lu's. She's got lots to eat."

And so Bunny and the ragged man began the long climb up the stairs,
while Sue rode in the elevator. She, of course, was the first to reach
her aunt's rooms. Wopsie let Sue in.

"Oh, Aunt Lu!" cried Sue. "The hungry, ragged man's coming. He ate bread
out of the ash can, and he hasn't had any breakfast, dinner or supper.
Bunny's walking up stairs with him, so Henry won't see him, 'cause
Henry, maybe, wouldn't let him ride in the elevator. But he's awful
hungry, so please give him some of that meat!"

For a moment Aunt Lu stared at Sue, and so did Mrs. Brown.

"Bless my stars!" cried Aunt Lu, after a bit. "What does the child
mean?"

"It's the ragged man," Sue explained. "Bunny's bringing him up the
stairs," and then the little girl told her aunt and mother all about it.

"But, Sue, dear! You musn't bring strange men in the house," said her
mother.

"Oh, he was so hungry and ragged!" cried the little girl.

"She meant all right," remarked Aunt Lu. "I dare say it is some poor