Not quite, but
almost. At all events, Pepsy could muster up courage to go and face him,
and that she was now resolved to do.
Indeed, this had been her secret.
CHAPTER XXV
AN ACCIDENT
Mr. Ira Jensen sometimes wore a white collar and he was deacon in
the church and he was the one who selected the Everdoze school teacher,
and he was president of the Horden County Agricultural Association and
he had a khaki-colored swinging-seat on his porch and muslin curtains
in his windows. So you may judge from all this what a mighty man he was.
Such a man is not to be approached except upon a well-considered plan.
It required almost another week of idling in the refreshment parlor,
of vain hopes, and ebbing interest on the part of the scout partner,
to bring Pepsy to the state of desperation needed for her terrible
enterprise. A sudden and alarming turn of Pee-Wee's fickle mind
precipitated her action.
"Let's eat up all the stuff and make the summerhouse into a gymnasium,
and we can give magic lantern shows in it, too. What do you say?"
Pee-Wee inquired in his most enthusiastic manner. "We can charge five
cents to get in." He did not explain whence the audiences would come.
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