Alked him blind; so at last he give in, and said all right, but said he
believed it was blamed foolishness to stay, and that doctor hanging over
them. But the king says: "Cuss the doctor! What do we k'yer for HIM?
Hain't we got all the fools in town on our side? And ain't that a big
enough majority in any town?" So they got ready to go down stairs again.
The duke says: "I don't think we put that money in a good place." That
cheered me up. I'd begun to think I warn't going to get a hint of no
kind to help me. The king says: "Why?" "Because Mary Jane 'll be in
mourning from this out; and first you know the nigger that does up the
rooms will get an order to box these duds up and put 'em away; and do
you reckon a nigger can run across money and not borrow some of it?"
"Your head's level agin, duke," says the king; and he comes a-fumbling
under the curtain two or three foot from where I was. I stuck tight to
the wall and kept mighty still, though quivery; and I wondered what them
fellows would say to me if they catched me; and I tried to think what
I'd better do if they did catch me. But the king he got the bag before I
could think more than about a half a thought, and he never suspicioned I
was around. They took and shoved the bag through a rip in the straw tick
that was under the feather-bed, and crammed it in a foot or two amongst
the straw and said it was all right now, because a nigger only makes up
the feather-bed, and don't turn over the straw tick only about twice a
year, and so it warn't in no danger of getting stole now. But I knowed
better. I had it out of there before they was half-way down stairs. I
groped along up to my cubby, and
