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Show ,, -o -·> tni 'take-I reckon that'' the way of it. The be t way'~ to let it go, and keep till about it. 're can pare it.'' 'Oh, :huck , y ·, w can spft1'e it. I don't k,y r noth'n 'boulthat ifsihccount 1'111 thinkin'ab uL \\r \Yant to be :1wful , qunrP an<l open and above-board, h re, yon kno\\. \\'e .\1.\J\:l~U t ·p Till~" DEJ<'I<'L ' lT.'' want to lug ibis h-ycr 1noney up .. tairs and count iC b<.fore everybody-then iher' ain,t noth'n Rnspi ·iou. But wh 'n the dead 1nan 'ay: ther'.-- ix thou. 'n dollars, you know, we don't \ran 't to ., "Ifold on,' ay the dnk . '' Le mak up the leffi.-it ·· -and he begun to haul out yaller-boys out of his pockPt. A11-FCL ~·QFARE. " It's a rno ·t an1az ,n, g ocl id a, duk -yon hnve got H raitlin' clev r h e1d H you;· ~<l Y th kin<r. ' Bl .. :t if the olcl Non uch ain t a heppin us ont agin ''-and h~ begun to haul out yall r-jackets and .'tack th In up. It 1nost bu .. ted them, but th y 1nade up th ix: th on~ancl ch'an and clear. " Say," ay the duke, " I goL a not her idea. Le ·~ go n p;.; tairs antl count this 1noney, nud then take and give it to thf' ,fJ i 1'l L 1 .'' "Goocl land, duke lc1n1n hun· von ! 1 C::5 t11e 111usl dazz- b .l ling i<l a ,at vera 1nan . h·nck. You have ('('rt'nl_y got 11H\ JllO ·t a loni hin' head I 'Y r ~e '. Oh, thi. is the bos~ doclg·e, ihcr' ain't no 1nistake 'houL it. Lel 'enl fetch alnng 1l1eir su - picion. no\v, if they want t.n- il1is'lllny 'ern out.'' 'Yhcn \ve got np . t air~, ev rybody gd he reel a ronnel the tabl , ancl t.hc king he count 'tl it ancl stacked it up i hr '<' hundred dollars in a pile hn'nty el<·gant little pill>.'. Evcrvbod,v looketl huno-ry at j(, and licked iheir cl1op.. . Tl Jcn they rake<l iL into the bag again, an<l l 'l'e the king begin io '\\ell l1iln:elf' np for anoth 'r sp ech. 1 [e ::1ys : '' Fri nels all, my poor brot. her that lays yonder has clone g nerous by the1n i hal'· l('fL bvhind in th vale of .:orrer ·. J r c has don generou by th ','e-y r poor little la1nh: tlwL he lov<·d and :heltcre l, and that': l fL fath erless and 1notherl :-:~ . l~ e~, and we that knowed hi1n, know that he wonlcl a. don ?no?'P generous by ' m if he hacln 't h n nf ard o' \vounclin · his dear 'Villiam and me. Now, 1.uo1d(ln't he? Ther' ain,t no question ,bout it, jn my mind. V\r 11, th n-what kind o' broth rR '\Youlu it be, 1 hat'd tancl in hj \Yay at ·ech a time? And \vhat kind o · unci \vonld it be thn fd rob- yes, ?'OU-s <.: h poor swrrt lmnb · a, th e 'at h • loved .-o, at ~ech a tin1 ? lf l k11ow \\Tillianl-and I thi.nl.· I do- he-well, rn j e:t a, k hiln:' II> turns around and begins t u1a ke a lot of s1gn to the dul·e |