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"Well, then, I'll believe some of it; but I hope to gracious if I'll believe the rest.""What is it you won't believe, Joe?" says Mary Jane, stepping in with Susan behind her."It ain't right nor kind for you to talk so to him, and him a stranger and so far from his people.How would you like to be treated so?""That's always your way, Maim -- always sailing in to help somebody before they're hurt.I hain't done nothing to him.He's told some stretchers, I reckon, and I said I wouldn't swallow it all; and that's every bit and grain I DID say.I reckon he can stand a little thing like that, can't he?""I don't care whether 'twas little or whether 'twas big; he's here in our house and a stranger, and it wasn't good of you to say it.If you was in his place it would make you feel ashamed; and so you oughtn't to say a thing to another person that will make THEM feel ashamed.""Why, Maim, he said --"

"It don't make no difference what he SAID -- that ain't the thing.The thing is for you to treat him KIND, and not be saying things to make him remember he ain't in his own country and amongst his own folks."I says to myself, THIS is a girl that I'm letting that old reptle rob her of her money!

Then Susan SHE waltzed in; and if you'll believe me, she did give Hare-lip hark from the tomb!

Says I to myself, and this is ANOTHER one that I'm letting him rob her of her money!

Then Mary Jane she took another inning, and went in sweet and lovely again -- which was her way; but when she got done there warn't hardly anything left o' poor Hare-lip.So she hollered.

"All right, then," says the other girls; "you just ask his pardon."She done it, too; and she done it beautiful.She done it so beautiful it was good to hear; and I wished I could tell her a thousand lies, so she could do it again.

I says to myself, this is ANOTHER one that I'm letting him rob her of her money.And when she got through they all jest laid theirselves out to make me feel at home and know I was amongst friends.I felt so ornery and low down and mean that I says to myself, my mind's made up; I'll hive that money for them or bust.

So then I lit out -- for bed, I said, meaning some time or another.

When I got by myself I went to thinking the thing over.I says to myself, shall I go to that doctor, private, and blow on these frauds? No -- that won't do.He might tell who told him; then the king and the duke would make it warm for me.Shall I go, private, and tell Mary Jane? No -- I dasn't do it.Her face would give them a hint, sure; they've got the money, and they'd slide right out and get away with it.If she was to fetch in help I'd get mixed up in the business before it was done with, I judge.No;there ain't no good way but one.I got to steal that money, somehow; and I got to steal it some way that they won't suspicion that I done it.They've got a good thing here, and they ain't a-going to leave till they've played this family and this town for all they're worth, so I'll find a chance time enough.I'll steal it and hide it; and by and by, when I'm away down the river, I'll write a letter and tell Mary Jane where it's hid.But Ibetter hive it tonight if I can, because the doctor maybe hasn't let up as much as he lets on he has; he might scare them out of here yet.

So, thinks I, I'll go and search them rooms.Upstairs the hall was dark, but I found the duke's room, and started to paw around it with my hands;but I recollected it wouldn't be much like the king to let anybody else take care of that money but his own self; so then I went to his room and begun to paw around there.But I see I couldn't do nothing without a candle, and I dasn't light one, of course.So I judged I'd got to do the other thing -- lay for them and eavesdrop.About that time I hears their footsteps coming, and was going to skip under the bed; I reached for it, but it wasn't where I thought it would be; but I touched the curtain that hid Mary Jane's frocks, so I jumped in behind that and snuggled in amongst the gowns, and stood there perfectly still.

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