The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1905-05-24
1922. BY B. L. FARJEoN. :.::::

way to show our gratitude. Ia WORK
my fingers to the bone for them as has
been so kind to u.s."
mo occasion to tell me that. Make
Believe. / wish l could come into the
country with yer"
Now, who should be watching them
through the window as they stood talk
ing to Thomas Dexter but Foxey, and
presently he saw a wonderful thing.
After you'd done your pretending
and went away" said Saranne, land
We locked up and saw the two SOW
ereigns on the table, I said to Make
Believe I'd like to kiss you-for 1
thought at first they came from you"
And now that you know they didn't
come from me-" said Thomas Dexter,
yer wouldn't like to kiss me, 1 sup
pose"
What Fo1ey saw at this moment was
this:
He saw Little Make-Believe go up to
Thomas Dexter and kiss him.
1t was such a kiss as a child might
have given to her father, but through
Fo1ey's heart shot a jealous pang.
Presently the girls left the shop, and
Foxey followed them unobserved.
Coed news sometimes flies as fast as
bad, but it was not to be expected that
| the circumstance of Little Make
Believe exchanging two golden sover-
| eigns in the purchase of clothes
| should pass unnoticed, and Thomas
| Dexter himself had, for reasons of his
own. made it known that the sisters
had been invited to spend a few days
in the country.
Into these reasons it will be as well,
in the cause of charitable feeling, not
| to enter; sufficient to say that any evil
| construction which might have been
| placed upon Little Make-Believe's and
| Saranne's possession of so much money
was by these means nipped in the bud.
Foxey was one of those who had
| heard Of the treat in store for the
| sisters.
All day long he watched them with
out their knowledge; he wanted to
speak to Little Make-Believe quietly,
with no one by, but he could not obtain
an opportunity.
Night came on, and he had not been
able to exchange a word with her; with
what was in his mind he could rest no
longer.
He knocked at the door of the house
in which she lived, and asked the
woman to tell Little Make-Belive that
a friend wanted to speak to her. She
came at once
"Oh, it's you, Foxey," she said, not at
all d%ispleased to see him. What do
yer want"
II want to speak to YER" he an
swered, "if yer don't nind coming out
for a minute or two"
Without any suspicion or fear she ac-
companied him to a part of the street
where there was the least chance Of
their conversation being interrupted.
"You amt in any trouble are you?"
she asked.
"No, Make-Believe,' he replied, 81
amt in no trouble. / heered as you
was going into the country"
"Yes," she said; Its the fust time
we've we been. Why, whoever told
yer?"
"It's all over the shop" he said,
gloomily; you've been buying new
dresses and boots"
YES" 'F1 Use
And you've been kissing Tommy
Dexter"
She was silent; there was that in his
voice which suddenly made her trem-
BILE.
How do yer know that% she asked,
presently.
II seed yer this morning as I hap
pened to pass his shop"
There was no harm in it," said Lit
tie Make-Believe, after another pause;
hes been a real good friend to Sar-
anne and me. He knows we're going
to have a ~holiday-it's the fust We ever
had, Foxey-and he give US this morn
ing two nice capes and two warm
cloaks."
And then suddenly she exclaimed,
rather fiercely:
"What makes you speak of it as if I
was doing something wrong?. Do yer
want me to hate YER"
mo, Make-Believe, no." he cried,
eagerly. IF yer say there was no
bo,no -, - ne oo,rca tbora vpoc no
harm in it,"
He's old enough to be my grand
father" said Little Make-Believe.
The situation was SO extremely novel
to her that she was swayed by oppos-
ing moods, which at n moment led
her into exculpation Of her actions, and
in the next fred her with indignation
at Foxey's interference with them.
What do yer mean," she cried, "by
talking to me like that? You've no
right to watch me, as I'm aware on.
Look here; Foxey; you're q bad lot, l
know, but I thought you was
sneak enough to be q spy"
He Quivered at this and replied:
I'm no spy. 1 watched yer today
because 1 wanted to speak to yer alone.
AS to being a bad lot-well, I know /
ana; I amt got nothink to say agin
that. But 1 amt a sneak, Make-Be-
lieve; l never went back on q pal and
never showed a white liver"
Ordinarily his voice was harsh and
defiant. but il was now so mild, and
his manner altogether was SO humble,
that Little Make-Believe r~eproached
harco1f for hoinp hard IN him