Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1907-03-07

capes for fine days and two warm
cloaks for rainy days.
They were exactly alike.
II don't know" said Little Make
Believe "what should make every
body so good to us. We ought to be
the happiest Of the happy-and we are,
Mr.. Dexter. why, Saranne, we shall
be regular ladies!
"Only," said Thomas Dexter, gayly,
don't grow proud, as other ladies do"
"That could never happen, Mr.. Dex-
ter. What ! want. sir. is for some
way to show our gratitude. I'd work
my fingers to the bone for them as has
been so kind to u.s."
"No occasion to tell me that, Make
Believe. I 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 wonderful thing.
"After you'd done your pretending
and went away" said Saranne, "and
We looked up and saw the two SOW
ereigns 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,
'yer wouldn't like to kiss me, l sup
pose"
What Foxey saw at this moment was
this:
He saw Little Make Believe 60 up to
Thomas Dexter and kiss him.
1t was such kiss rs n 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.
Good 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 unnoticcd, and Thomas
Dexter himself had, for reasons of his
own, made it known that the sisters
had been invited to spend few days
in the country.
Into these reasons it will be rs 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
Sarannes 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 thei. knowledge; he wanted to
speak to Little Make-Believc 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 displeased to see him. "What do
yer want:'
81 want to speak to yer" he an
swered, "if yer don't mind coming out
for a minute or two"
Without any suspicion or fear she ac-
companied him to 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, II
amt in no trouble. I heered as you
was going into the country"
EYES," she said; 'it's the fust time
we've ever been. Why, whoever told
yer?'
"It's all over the shop" he said,
gloomily; "you've been buying new
dresses and boots"
"Yes." ''
"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.
Il seed yer this morning as l hap
pened to pass his shop"
"There was no harm in it," said Lit
tie Make Believe. after another pause;
"he's been a real good friend to Sar-
anne and me. He knows were going
to have holiday-its 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 yd1' bpeak of it as If I
was doing somttE;'H wrong? DO yer
want me to hate yer?"
"No, Make Believe, no" he cried,
eagerly. "If yer say there was no
harm in II, of course there was 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 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 mean," she cried, "by
talking to me like that? You've no
right to watch me, as I'm aware on.