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Tom Sawyer Discovers The Murderers |
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"A thief?" "Yes, sir. And he's got them twelve-thousand-dollar di'monds on him." By gracious, but it made a stir! Everybody went shouting: "Which is him? which is him? p'int him out!" And the judge says: "Point him out, my lad. Sheriff, you will arrest him. Which one is it?" Tom says: "This late dead man here--Jubiter Dunlap." Then there was another thundering let-go of astonishment and excitement; but Jubiter, which was astonished enough before, was just fairly putrified with astonishment this time. And he spoke up, about half crying, and says: "Now THAT'S a lie. Your honor, it ain't fair; I'm plenty bad enough without that. I done the other things--Brace he put me up to it, and persuaded me, and promised he'd make me rich, some day, and I done it, and I'm sorry I done it, and I wisht I hadn't; but I hain't stole no di'monds, and I hain't GOT no di'monds; I wisht I may never stir if it ain't so. The sheriff can search me and see." Tom says: "Your honor, it wasn't right to call him a thief, and I'll let up on that a little. He did steal the di'monds, but he didn't know it. He stole them from his brother Jake when he was laying dead, after Jake had stole them from the other thieves; but Jubiter didn't know he was stealing them; and he's been swelling around here with them a month; yes, sir, twelve thousand dollars' worth of di'monds on him--all that riches, and going around here every day just like a poor man. Yes, your honor, he's got them on him now." |
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