Pepsy

"Pepsy," said Mrs. Quig, addressing her, "you shake hands with

Pee-Wee Harris Percy Keese Fitzhugh 1913

To give two hundred and fifty dollars to a person who has boxed your ears and then to go merrily upon your way in quest of new triumphs, that Pepsy could not understand.

Pee-Wee Harris Percy Keese Fitzhugh 1913

Pepsy had no money invested in their unprofitable enterprise, for she had no money to invest.

Pee-Wee Harris Percy Keese Fitzhugh 1913

Pepsy had been trusted and had proven worthy of the trust.

Pee-Wee Harris Percy Keese Fitzhugh 1913

He and Pepsy were discussing this miscarriage of their exploitation design when a shuffling sound in the distance proclaimed the shambling approach of the advertising department.

Pee-Wee Harris Percy Keese Fitzhugh 1913

But deliberately to sacrifice this fabulous sum in the interest of a poor little invalid that he had never seen, made Pee-Wee not only a prophet but a saint to poor Pepsy.

Pee-Wee Harris Percy Keese Fitzhugh 1913

"Only we didn't make a success of our refreshment parlor," Pepsy ventured to say, "but just the same we're going to because --"

Pee-Wee Harris Percy Keese Fitzhugh 1913

Ebenezer had agreed to be responsible for the girl, and Pepsy had spent a year of joyous freedom at the farm marred only by the threat hanging over her that she would be restored to the authorities upon the least suspicion of misconduct.

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For, as he told Pepsy, "a scout has to be kind and forgiving, and besides when I go to the carnival I can plug him in the face with a baseball two or three times and then we'll be square."

Pee-Wee Harris Percy Keese Fitzhugh 1913

To translate some little red flashes of light and read a secret in them was utterly beyond the comprehension of poor Pepsy.

Pee-Wee Harris Percy Keese Fitzhugh 1913