"I should worry about girls," Pee-Wee said.

"I'm not worrying about our refreshment shack anyway," Pepsy said,
"because now I know it will be lots and lots of a success. And maybe
you can buy four or five tents and lots of other things. Every night
in bed I keep saying:

It has to succeed,
It has to succeed,

and I make believe the floor on the bridge says that instead. But
sometimes it says I have to go back. When the wind blows this way
I can hear it loud. I know a secret that I thought of all by myself;
I thought about it when I was lying in bed listening. And I can make
us get lots of money, I can make it, oh, lots and lots and lots of a
success. So I don't care any more what people say. I told Aunt
Jamsiah I knew a secret and I could make us get lots of money here
and she said I should tell her and I wouldn't."

"Till you tell me?" Pee-Wee asked.

"No, I wouldn't tell anybody."

"You ought to tell me because we're partners." "I wouldn't tell
anybody," she said, shaking her head emphatically so that her red
braids lashed about; "not even if you gave me--as much as a dollar. ..."


CHAPTER XIV