Part 32 (1/2)
The lawyer done it, and says:
”I believe it's so?and if it ain't so, there's a heap stronger resemblance than I'd noticed before, anyway Well, well, well! I thought as right on the track of a solution, but it's gone to grass, partly But anyway, one thing is proved?_these_ two ain't either of 'e and the duke
Well, what do you think? That ive in _then_! Indeed he wouldn't Said it warn't no fair test Said his brother William was the cussedest joker in the world, and hadn't tried to write?_he_ see Willia to play one of his jokes the minute he put the pen to paper And so he war till he was actuly beginning to believe what he was saying _hientle Is there anybody here that helped to lay out ?”
”Yes,” says somebody, ”me and Ab Turner done it We're both here”
Then the old entleman can telldidn't have to brace up hty quick, or he'd a squshed down like a bluff bank that the river has cut under, it took hi that was calculated to et fetched such a solid one as that without any notice, because hoas _he_ going to knoas tattooed on the man?
He whitened a little; he couldn't help it; and it wasa little forwards and gazing at hie?there ain't no more use
Well, did he? A body can't hardly believe it, but he didn't I reckon he thought he'd keep the thing up till he tired them people out, so they'd thin out, and hiet away
Anyway, he set there, and pretty soon he begun to sh question, _ain't_ it! _yes_, sir, I k'n tell you what's tattooed on his breast It's jest a small, thin, blue arrow?that's what it is; and if you don't look clost, you can't see it
_nohat do you say?hey?”
Well, I never see anything like that old blister for clean out-and-out cheek
The new old gentleman turns brisk towards Ab Turner and his pard, and his eye lights up like he judged he'd got the king _this_ time, and says:
”There?you've heard what he said! Was there any such mark on Peter Wilks' breast?”
Both of them spoke up and says:
”We didn't see no such entleman ”Nohat you _did_ see on his breast was a small di), and a W, with dashes between them, so: P?B?W”?and he marked them that way on a piece of paper ”Coain, and says:
”No, we _didn't_ We never seen any marks at all”
Well, everybody _was_ in a state of s out:
”The whole _bilin_' of 'm 's frauds! Le's duck 'em! le's drown 'e at once, and there was a rattling po But the lawyer he juentle_le_ word?if you _please_! There's one way yet?let's go and dig up the corpse and look”