The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1905-06-09
] LITTLE MAKE-BELIEVE
A CHILD OF THE SLUMS.
:::::: BY q. L. FARJEoN. :::::

my fingers to the bone for them as has
been 80 kind to u.s."
mo occasion to tell me that, Make
Believe. ! wish ! 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 q wonderful thing.
"After you'd done your pretending
and went away" said Saranne, "and
we locked up and saw the two SOW
erelgns on the table, / said to Make
Believe I'd like to kiss you-for /
thought at first they came from yOu."
And now that you know they didn't
come from me-" said Thomas Dexter,
Eyer wouldn't like to kiss me, / sup
pose"
What FoIey saw at this moment was
this:
He saw Little Make-BelIeve 20 up to
Thomas Dexter and kiss him.
IL was such q kiss as q child might
have given to her father, but through
Foxey's heart shot jealous pang.
Presently the girls left the shop, and
Foxey followed them unobserved.
Coed news sometimes flies as fast az
bad, but IL was not TO be expected that
the circumstance OF Little Make
Believe exchanging two golden sover-
elgns In the purchase OF clothes
should pass unnoticed, and Thomas
Dexter himself had, for reasons OF his
own, made 1t, known that the sisters
had been invited to spend few days
I'm the country.
Into these reasons II 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 ne watched them with
out their knowledge; he wanted to
speak TO Little Make-Belleve quietly.
with no one by. but he could not obtain
an opportunity.
Night came on, and he had not been
able to exchange q word with her; with
what was in his mind he could rest no
longer.
He Knocked at the door OF the house
I'm which she lived. and asked the
woman to tell Little Make-Belive that
friend wanted ta.Speak to her. She
came at once.
"Oh, it's you, Foxey," she said, not at
all displeased to see him. What do
yer want"
II want to speak to YER" he an
swered, 'if yer don't nind coming out
for 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 your
she asked.
mo. Make-Believe," he replied, 81
amt in no trouble. I heered as you
was going into the country"
EYES," she said; Its the fust time
we've ever been. Why, whoever told
yer?"
Its all over the shop" he said
gloomily; you've been buying new
dresses and boots"
Eyes" ''lil-~W NSN
"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.
81 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 were going
to have holiday-it's the fust we ever
had, Foxey--and he give us this morn
ing two nice cspes and two warm
cloaks."
And then suddenly she exclaimed,
rather fiercely:
what makes you speak OF II as II l
was doing something wrong? DO yer
want me to hate yerT
mo. Make-Believe, no." he cried,
eagerly. ''If yer say there was no
harm In Il, OF course there was no
harm In IT,"
Hes 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 one moment led
her into exculpation of her actions, and
in the next fired her with indignation
at Foxey's interference with them.
"What do yer mcan," 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 bad lot,
know, but l never thought you was
sneak enough to be spy"
He quivered at this and replied:
I'm no spy. ! watched yer to-day
because / wanted TO speak 10 yer alone
~ to being a bad lot-well, know
am; amt got nothink TO say agir
that. But l amt a sneak, Make BE
lieve; l never went back on n pal and
never showed 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 reproached
herself for being hard 10 him.
"Tll take back about the sneak" she
said, but Il is strange that you should
have been watching me all day. What