"Maybe I'm not as brave as you are and can't do things and I'm
scared of Baxter City, but I bet you. I can think up as good turns as
you can, so there! And if you promise to stay here I'll make it so lots
of people will come and you can buy the tents and that will be a good
turn won't it? You said if you make up your mind to do a thing you can
do it."
"I wouldn't take back what I said," said Pee-Wee, finishing the
lemon stick by a terrible sudden assault with his teeth.
"Well, then, so there, Mr. Smarty," she said with an air of
triumph, "I'm going to do a good turn, you see, because I made up
my mind to it good and hard, and we'll make lots and lots of money.
So do you promise to stay here and keep on being partners? Do you
cross your heart you will?"
If Pee-Wee had been as observant of Pepsy as he was used to being
of signs along a trail he might have noticed that her eyes were all
ablaze and that her little, thin, freckly wrist trembled. But how should
he know that his own carelessly uttered words had burned themselves into
her very soul?
"If you make up your mind to do a thing you can do it."
CHAPTER XXIV
PEPSY'S ENTERPRISE
Pepsy knew the scouts only through Pee-Wee.
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