Part 7 (2/2)
She said she wouldn't let o by myself, but her husband would be in by and by,withabout her husband, and about her relations up the river, and her relations down the river, and about how much better off they used to was, and how they didn't know but they'dwell alone?and so on and so on, till I was afeard I hadon in the town; but by and by she dropped on to pap and the ht along
She told about ot it ten) and all about pap and what a hard lot he was, and what a hard lot I was, and at last she got down to where I was murdered I says:
”Who done it? We've heard considerable about these goings on down in Hookerville, but we don't knoho 'twas that killed Huck Finn”
”Well, I reckon there's a right smart chance of people _here_ that'd like to knoho killed him Some think old Finn done it hiht it at first He'll never kno nigh he coed around and judged it was done by a runaway nigger named Jim”
”Why _he_?”
I stopped I reckoned I better keep still She run on, and never noticed I had put in at all:
”The nigger run off the very night Huck Finn was killed So there's a reward out for him?three hundred dollars And there's a reward out for old Finn, too?two hundred dollars You see, he co after the murder, and told about it, and was out with 'eht away after he up and left Before night they wanted to lynch hione, you see Well, next day they found out the nigger was gone; they found out he hadn't ben seen sence ten o'clock the night the murder was done So then they put it on him, you see; and while they was full of it, next day, back coet er all over Illinois with The judge gave hiot drunk, and was around till after ers, and then went off with the for hi blows over a little, for people thinks now that he killed his boy and fixed things so folks would think robbers done it, and then he'd get Huck'stiood to do it Oh, he's sly, I reckon
If he don't coht You can't prove anything on hi will be quieted down then, and he'll walk in Huck's ”
”Yes, I reckon so, ' in the way of it Has everybody quit thinking the nigger done it?”
”Oh, no, not everybody A good er pretty soon now, and maybe they can scare it out of him”
”Why, are they after him yet?”
”Well, you're innocent, ain't you! Does three hundred dollars lay around every day for people to pick up? Soer ain't far from here I'o I was talking with an old couple that lives next door in the log shanty, and they happened to say hardly anybody ever goes to that island over yonder that they call Jackson's Island Don't anybody live there? says I No, nobody, says they I didn't say anyI was pretty near certain I'd seen smoke over there, about the head of the island, a day or two before that, so I says toover there; anyway, says I, it's worth the trouble to give the place a hunt I hain't seen any sone, if it was hi over to see?hiot back to-day, and I told hiot so uneasy I couldn't set still I had to do so with my hands; so I took up a needle off of the table and went to threading it My hands shook, and I wasI looked up, and she was looking ata little I put down the needle and thread, and let on to be interested?and I was, too?and says:
”Three hundred dollars is a power ofover there to-night?”
”Oh, yes He went up-toith the et a boat and see if they could borrow another gun They'll go over after ht”
”Couldn't they see better if they was to wait till daytier see better, too? After ht he'll likely be asleep, and they can slip around through the woods and hunt up his caot one”
”I didn't think of that”
The wo at me pretty curious, and I didn't feel a bit comfortable Pretty soon she says,
”What did you say your name was, honey?”
”M?Mary Williams”
Somehow it didn't seem to me that I said it was Mary before, so I didn't look up?seemed to me I said it was Sarah; so I felt sort of cornered, and was afearedit, too I wished the woer she set still the uneasier I was But now she says: