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1"People to help him, Brother Marples! Well, I reckon you'd think so if you'd a been in this house for a while back. Why,
2they've stole everything they could lay their hands on--and we a-watching all the time, mind you. They stole that shirt
3right off o' the line! and as for that sheet they made the rag ladder out of, ther' ain't no telling how many times they
4didn't steal that; and flour, and candles, and candlesticks, and spoons, and the old warming-pan, and most a thousand
5things that I disremember now, and my new calico dress; and me and Silas and my Sid and Tom on the constant watch day
6and night, as I was a-telling you, and not a one of us could catch hide nor hair nor sight nor sound of them; and here
7at the last minute, lo and behold you, they slides right in under our noses and fools us, and not only fools us but the
8Injun Territory robbers too, and actuly gets away with that nigger safe and sound, and that with sixteen men and
9twenty-two dogs right on their very heels at that very time! I tell you, it just bangs anything I ever heard of. Why,
10sperits couldn't a done better and been no smarter. And I reckon they must a been sperits--because, you know our dogs,
11and ther' ain't no better; well, them dogs never even got on the track of 'm once! You explain that to me if you
12can!--any of you!" "Well, it does beat--" "Laws alive, I never--" "So help me, I wouldn't a be--" "House-thieves as well
13as--" "Goodnessgracioussakes, I'd a ben afeard to live in sich a--" "'Fraid to live!--why, I was that scared I dasn't
14hardly go to bed, or get up, or lay down, or set down, Sister Ridgeway. Why, they'd steal the very--why, goodness sakes,
15you can guess what kind of a fluster I was in by the time midnight come last night. I hope to gracious if I warn't
16afraid they'd steal some o' the family! I was just to that pass I didn't have no reasoning faculties no more. It looks
17foolish enough now, in the daytime; but I says to myself, there's my two poor boys asleep, 'way up stairs in that
18lonesome room, and I declare to goodness I was that uneasy 't I crep' up there and locked 'em in! I did. And anybody
19would. Because, you know, when you get scared that way, and it keeps running on, and getting worse and worse all the
20time, and your wits gets to addling, and you get to doing all sorts o' wild things, and by-and-by you think to yourself,
21spos'n I was a boy, and was away up there, and the door ain't locked, and you--" She stopped, looking kind of wondering,
22and then she turned her head around slow, and when her eye lit on me--I got up and took a walk. Says I to myself, I can
23explain better how we come to not be in that room this morning if I go out to one side and study over it a little. So I
24done it. But I dasn't go fur, or she'd a sent for me. And when it was late in the day the people all went, and then I
25come in and told her the noise and shooting waked up me and "Sid," and the door was locked, and we wanted to see the
26fun, so we went down the lightning-rod, and both of us got hurt a little, and we didn't never want to try that no more.
27And then I went on and told her all what I told Uncle Silas before; and then she said she'd forgive us, and maybe it was
28all right enough anyway, and about what a body might expect of boys, for all boys was a pretty harum-scarum lot as fur
29as she could see; and so, as long as no harm hadn't come of it, she judged she better put in her time being grateful we
30was alive and well and she had us still, stead of fretting over what was past and done. So then she kissed me, and
31patted me on the head, and dropped into a kind of a brown study; and pretty soon jumps up, and says: "Why, lawsamercy,
32it's most night, and Sid not come yet! What has become of that boy?" I see my chance; so I skips up and says: "I'll run
33right up to town and get him," I says. "No you won't," she says. "You'll stay right wher' you are; one's enough to be
34lost at a time. If he ain't here to supper, your uncle 'll go." Well, he warn't there to supper; so right after supper
35uncle went. He come back about ten a little bit uneasy; hadn't run across Tom's track. Aunt Sally was a good deal
36uneasy; but Uncle Silas he said there warn't no occasion to be--boys will be boys, he said, and you'll see this one turn
37up in the morning all sound and right. So she had to be satisfied. But she said she'd set up for him a while anyway, and
38keep a light burning so he could see it. And then when I went up to bed she come up with me and fetched her candle, and
39tucked me in, and mothered me so good I felt mean, and like I couldn't look her in the face; and she set down on the bed
40and talked with me a long time, and said what a splendid boy Sid was, and didn't seem to want to ever stop talking about
41him; and kept asking me every now and then if I reckoned he could a got lost, or hurt, or maybe drownded, and might be
42laying at this minute somewheres suffering or dead, and she not by him to help him, and so the tears would drip down
43silent, and I would tell her that Sid was all right, and would be home in the morning, sure; and she would squeeze my
44hand, or maybe kiss me, and tell me to say it again, and keep on saying it, because it done her good, and she was in so
45much trouble. And when she was going away she looked down in my eyes so steady and gentle, and says: "The door ain't
46going to be locked, Tom, and there's the window and the rod; but you'll be good, won't you? And you won't go? For my
47sake." Laws knows I wanted to go bad enough to see about Tom, and was all intending to go; but after that I wouldn't a
48went, not for kingdoms. But she was on my mind and Tom was on my mind, so I slept very restless. And twice I went down
49the rod away in the night, and slipped around front, and see her setting there by her candle in the window with her eyes
50towards the road and the tears in them; and I wished I could do something for her, but I couldn't, only to swear that I
51wouldn't never do nothing to grieve her any more. And the third time I waked up at dawn, and slid down, and she was
52there yet, and her candle was most out, and her old gray head was resting on her hand, and she was asleep.
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