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His thin face flushed and he pretended to pick a sliver from his foot as he answered: "Let's me an' you hire the littles' house an' pay the rent ourselves an' Goober Glory do our cookin' an' sewin' an' an' quit yer foolin', Billy Buttons! This ain't no make-b'lieve, this ain't. I plumb mean it."
"But please, sir," said the girl, with immense gravity, "mayn't I let him die, and not find out what's ailing him, so I can marry the maire?" "Nope," firmly, "you got to Say, gee! I didn't expect to tell you all this make-b'lieve.... I'm afraid you'll think it's awful fresh of me." "Oh, I loved it really I did because you liked to make it up about poor Istra.
I remember I used to sit on dad's doorstep, all those long sleepy summer afternoons, and I'd think, 'Aw, geeeeee, I wisht I had somebody to play with! I always wanted to make-b'lieve Robin Hood, but none of the other kids so many of them were German; they didn't know about Robin Hood; so I used to scout off alone." "If I could only have been there, to be Maid Marian for you!
"Oh, I guess I was just well, it was almost make-b'lieve how you had a castle in France just a kind of a fool game." "Oh, don't be ashamed of imagination," she demanded, stamping her foot, while her voice fluttered, low and beautifully controlled, through half a dozen notes. "Tell me the rest of your story about me." She was sitting on the rail above him now.
As he walked away he grinned within. "Gee! I talked to that omelet Berg' rac like I'd known it all my life!" Other s'prises for Istra's party he sought. Let's see; suppose it really were her birthday, wouldn't she like to have a letter from some important guy? he queried of himself. He'd write her a make-b'lieve letter from a duke. Which he did.
"I looped my fingers up in circles like make-b'lieve eye-glasses, and said, 'Mah deah man, yoah hat is too tall and yoah pants ah too wide. I don't like the looks of them, but I am too p'lite to say so."
Then he put his hands to his ears and made loops of his fingers to show earrings. Then he took off his coat and wrapped it round his knees like make-b'lieve skirts. Hammond and me looked at each other. "''Edge, says Hammond, ''e wants to know w'at's become of Lobelia 'Ankins. "'No, senor, says I to the feller; 'ooman no here. Ooman there! And I p'inted in the direction of our island.
"Wal', wal'," said the Captain, "on the hull I've seen real things a good deal more wonderful than all their shows, and they hain't no make-b'lieve to 'em; but theatres is takin' arter all. But, Sally, mind you don't say nothin' to Mis' Kittridge."
You know as well as I do that men like Rufford and 'Cat' Biggs and Red-Light Sammy'll eat him alive, just for the fun of it, if he can't make out to throw lead quicker'n they can. And that ain't saying anything about the hobo outfit he'll have to go up against on this make-b'lieve railroad." "No," agreed Bradford, ruminating thoughtfully.
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