But the comforter did not stay long, for Pepsy dreamed a dream.
She dreamed that all the people of the village, Simeon Drowser,
Nathaniel Knapp, Darius Dragg, the sneering Deadwood Gamely, and even
the faithless Arabella Bellison, the school teacher, were pointing
fingers a yard long, at her and saying, "You have to go back to the
big brick building. You have to go back, you have to go back." On the
big doughnut jar in the "refreshment parlor" sat Licorice Stick saying,
"You have to go back the next time it thunders." She shook her fist at
Licorice Stick and called him a Smarty and said she would not go back,
but they all laughed and sang:
"You have to go back,
You have to go back."
Miss Bellison was the worst of all. ...
"You have to go back,
You have to------"
With a sudden start Pepsy sat up on the rock, wide awake,
"-----go back,
You have to go back.",
She still heard.
Her forehead throbbed and her face felt very hot. There was a
ringing in her ears. She was feverish, but she did not know that.
All she knew was that everybody was against her and that the bridge
had put them up to it.
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