Part 29 (2/2)
”Well, that 'll answer Now you go along out there, and lay low till nine or half-past to-night, and then get theht of soet here before eleven put a candle in this , and if I don't turn up wait _till_ eleven, and _then_ if I don't turn up it one, and out of the way, and safe Then you coet these beats jailed”
”Good,” she says, ”I'll do it”
”And if it just happens so that I don't get away, but get took up along with the beforehand, and you must stand by me all you can”
”Stand by you! indeed I will They sha'n't touch a hair of your head!”
she says, and I see her nostrils spread and her eyes snap when she said it, too
”If I get away I sha'n't be here,” I says, ”to prove these rapscallions ain't your uncles, and I couldn't do it if I _was_ here I could swear they was beats and bu
Well, there's others can do that better than what I can, and they're people that ain't going to be doubted as quick as I'd be I'll tell you how to find them Gimme a pencil and a piece of paper There?'Royal Nonesuch, Bricksville' Put it away, and don't lose it When the court wants to find out so about these two, let theot the men that played the Royal Nonesuch, and ask for some witnesses?why, you'll have that entire ton here before you can hardly wink, Miss Mary And they'll co fixed about right now So I says:
”Just let the auction go right along, and don't worry nobody don't have to pay for the things they buy till a whole day after the auction on accounts of the short notice, and they ain't going out of this till they get thatto count, and they ain't going to get no ers?it warn't no sale, and the niggers will be back before long Why, they can't collect the ers_ yet?they're in the worst kind of a fix, Miss Mary”
”Well,” she says, ”I'll run down to breakfast now, and then I'll start straight for Mr Lothrop's”
”'Deed, _that_ ain't the ticket, Miss Mary Jane,” I says, ”by no o _before_ breakfast”
”Why?”
”What did you reckon I wanted you to go at all for, Miss Mary?”
”Well, I never thought?and come to think, I don't know What was it?”
”Why, it's because you ain't one of these leather-face people I don't want no better book than what your face is A body can set down and read it off like coarse print Do you reckon you can go and face your uncles when they co, and never?”
”There, there, don't! Yes, I'll go before breakfast?I'll be glad to
And leave my sisters with theot to stand it yet a while They o I don't want you to see thehbor was to ask how is your uncles this ht along, Miss Mary Jane, and I'll fix it with all of theive your love to your uncles and say you've went away for a few hours for to get a little rest and change, or to see a friend, and you'll be back to-night or early in the ht, but I won't have iven to theh to tell _her_ so?no har to do, and no trouble; and it's the little things that smooths people's roads the most, down here below; it wouldThen I says: ”There's one ot that; and it ot it”
”No, you're out, there They hain't got it”
”Why, who's got it?”
”I wish I knowed, but I don't I _had_ it, because I stole it froive to you; and I knohere I hid it, but I'm afraid it ain't there no more I'm awful sorry, Miss Mary Jane, I'm just as sorry as I can be; but I done the best I could; I did honest I coht, and I had to shove it into the first place I coood place”
”Oh, stop bla yourself?it's too bad to do it, and I won't allow it?you couldn't help it; it wasn't your fault Where did you hide it?”
I didn't want to set her to thinking about her troubles again; and I couldn't seeet myin the coffin with that bag of ; then I says:
”I'd ruther not _tell_ you where I put it, Miss Mary Jane, if you don'tme off; but I'll write it for you on a piece of paper, and you can read it along the road to Mr Lothrop's, if you want to Do you reckon that 'll do?”