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"Well, you just own up, first, that you did hide that money there, intending to give me the slip one of these days, and come back and dig it up, and have it all to yourself."
"Wait jest a minute, duke -- answer me this one question, honest and fair; if you didn't put the money there, say it, and I'll b'lieve you, and take back everything I said."
"Well, then, I b'lieve you. But answer me only jest this one more -- now don't git mad; didn't you have it in your mind to hook the money and hide it?"
"I wisht I never die if I done it, duke, and that's honest. I won't say I warn't goin' to do it, because I was; but you -- I mean somebody -- got in ahead o' me."
"If you ever deny it again I'll drown you. It's well for you to set there and blubber like a baby -- it's fitten for you, after the way you've acted. I never see such an old ostrich for wanting to gobble everything -- and I a-trusting you all the time, like you was my own father.
You ought to been ashamed of yourself to stand by and hear it saddled on to a lot of poor niggers, and you never say a word for 'em. It makes me feel ridiculous to think I was soft enough to believe that rubbage.
Cuss you, I can see now why you was so anxious to make up the deffisit -- you wanted to get what money I'd got out of the Nonesuch and one thing or another, and scoop it all!"