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1I crept to their doors and listened; they was snoring. So I tiptoed along, and got down stairs all right. There warn't a
2sound anywheres. I peeped through a crack of the dining-room door, and see the men that was watching the corpse all
3sound asleep on their chairs. The door was open into the parlor, where the corpse was laying, and there was a candle in
4both rooms. I passed along, and the parlor door was open; but I see there warn't nobody in there but the remainders of
5Peter; so I shoved on by; but the front door was locked, and the key wasn't there. Just then I heard somebody coming
6down the stairs, back behind me. I run in the parlor and took a swift look around, and the only place I see to hide the
7bag was in the coffin. The lid was shoved along about a foot, showing the dead man's face down in there, with a wet
8cloth over it, and his shroud on. I tucked the money-bag in under the lid, just down beyond where his hands was crossed,
9which made me creep, they was so cold, and then I run back across the room and in behind the door. The person coming was
10Mary Jane. She went to the coffin, very soft, and kneeled down and looked in; then she put up her handkerchief, and I
11see she begun to cry, though I couldn't hear her, and her back was to me. I slid out, and as I passed the dining-room I
12thought I'd make sure them watchers hadn't seen me; so I looked through the crack, and everything was all right. They
13hadn't stirred. I slipped up to bed, feeling ruther blue, on accounts of the thing playing out that way after I had took
14so much trouble and run so much resk about it. Says I, if it could stay where it is, all right; because when we get down
15the river a hundred mile or two I could write back to Mary Jane, and she could dig him up again and get it; but that
16ain't the thing that's going to happen; the thing that's going to happen is, the money 'll be found when they come to
17screw on the lid. Then the king 'll get it again, and it 'll be a long day before he gives anybody another chance to
18smouch it from him. Of course I wanted to slide down and get it out of there, but I dasn't try it. Every minute it was
19getting earlier now, and pretty soon some of them watchers would begin to stir, and I might get catched--catched with
20six thousand dollars in my hands that nobody hadn't hired me to take care of. I don't wish to be mixed up in no such
21business as that, I says to myself. When I got down stairs in the morning the parlor was shut up, and the watchers was
22gone. There warn't nobody around but the family and the widow Bartley and our tribe. I watched their faces to see if
23anything had been happening, but I couldn't tell. Towards the middle of the day the undertaker come with his man, and
24they set the coffin in the middle of the room on a couple of chairs, and then set all our chairs in rows, and borrowed
25more from the neighbors till the hall and the parlor and the dining-room was full. I see the coffin lid was the way it
26was before, but I dasn't go to look in under it, with folks around. Then the people begun to flock in, and the beats and
27the girls took seats in the front row at the head of the coffin, and for a half an hour the people filed around slow, in
28single rank, and looked down at the dead man's face a minute, and some dropped in a tear, and it was all very still and
29solemn, only the girls and the beats holding handkerchiefs to their eyes and keeping their heads bent, and sobbing a
30little. There warn't no other sound but the scraping of the feet on the floor and blowing noses--because people always
31blows them more at a funeral than they do at other places except church. When the place was packed full the undertaker
32he slid around in his black gloves with his softy soothering ways, putting on the last touches, and getting people and
33things all ship-shape and comfortable, and making no more sound than a cat. He never spoke; he moved people around, he
34squeezed in late ones, he opened up passageways, and done it with nods, and signs with his hands. Then he took his place
35over against the wall. He was the softest, glidingest, stealthiest man I ever see; and there warn't no more smile to him
36than there is to a ham. They had borrowed a melodeum--a sick one; and when everything was ready a young woman set down
37and worked it, and it was pretty skreeky and colicky, and everybody joined in and sung, and Peter was the only one that
38had a good thing, according to my notion. Then the Reverend Hobson opened up, slow and solemn, and begun to talk; and
39straight off the most outrageous row busted out in the cellar a body ever heard; it was only one dog, but he made a most
40powerful racket, and he kept it up right along; the parson he had to stand there, over the coffin, and wait--you
41couldn't hear yourself think. It was right down awkward, and nobody didn't seem to know what to do. But pretty soon they
42see that long-legged undertaker make a sign to the preacher as much as to say, "Don't you worry--just depend on me."
43Then he stooped down and begun to glide along the wall, just his shoulders showing over the people's heads. So he glided
44along, and the powwow and racket getting more and more outrageous all the time; and at last, when he had gone around two
45sides of the room, he disappears down cellar. Then in about two seconds we heard a whack, and the dog he finished up
46with a most amazing howl or two, and then everything was dead still, and the parson begun his solemn talk where he left
47off. In a minute or two here comes this undertaker's back and shoulders gliding along the wall again; and so he glided
48and glided around three sides of the room, and then rose up, and shaded his mouth with his hands, and stretched his neck
49out towards the preacher, over the people's heads, and says, in a kind of a coarse whisper, "He had a rat!" Then he
50drooped down and glided along the wall again to his place. You could see it was a great satisfaction to the people,
51because naturally they wanted to know. A little thing like that don't cost nothing, and it's just the little things that
52makes a man to be looked up to and liked. There warn't no more popular man in town than what that undertaker was. Well,
53the funeral sermon was very good, but pison long and tiresome; and then the king he shoved in and got off some of his
54usual rubbage, and at last the job was through, and the undertaker begun to sneak up on the coffin with his
55screw-driver. I was in a sweat then, and watched him pretty keen. But he never meddled at all; just slid the lid along
56as soft as mush, and screwed it down tight and fast. So there I was! I didn't know whether the money was in there or
57not. So, says I, s'pose somebody has hogged that bag on the sly?--now how do I know whether to write to Mary Jane or
58not? S'pose she dug him up and didn't find nothing, what would she think of me? Blame it, I says, I might get hunted up
59and jailed; I'd better lay low and keep dark, and not write at all; the thing's awful mixed now; trying to better it,
60I've worsened it a hundred times, and I wish to goodness I'd just let it alone, dad fetch the whole business! They
61buried him, and we come back home, and I went to watching faces again--I couldn't help it, and I couldn't rest easy. But
62nothing come of it; the faces didn't tell me nothing.
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