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1The king he visited around in the evening, and sweetened everybody up, and made himself ever so friendly; and he give
2out the idea that his congregation over in England would be in a sweat about him, so he must hurry and settle up the
3estate right away and leave for home. He was very sorry he was so pushed, and so was everybody; they wished he could
4stay longer, but they said they could see it couldn't be done. And he said of course him and William would take the
5girls home with them; and that pleased everybody too, because then the girls would be well fixed and amongst their own
6relations; and it pleased the girls, too--tickled them so they clean forgot they ever had a trouble in the world; and
7told him to sell out as quick as he wanted to, they would be ready. Them poor things was that glad and happy it made my
8heart ache to see them getting fooled and lied to so, but I didn't see no safe way for me to chip in and change the
9general tune. Well, blamed if the king didn't bill the house and the niggers and all the property for auction straight
10off--sale two days after the funeral; but anybody could buy private beforehand if they wanted to. So the next day after
11the funeral, along about noon-time, the girls' joy got the first jolt. A couple of nigger traders come along, and the
12king sold them the niggers reasonable, for three-day drafts as they called it, and away they went, the two sons up the
13river to Memphis, and their mother down the river to Orleans. I thought them poor girls and them niggers would break
14their hearts for grief; they cried around each other, and took on so it most made me down sick to see it. The girls said
15they hadn't ever dreamed of seeing the family separated or sold away from the town. I can't ever get it out of my
16memory, the sight of them poor miserable girls and niggers hanging around each other's necks and crying; and I reckon I
17couldn't a stood it all, but would a had to bust out and tell on our gang if I hadn't knowed the sale warn't no account
18and the niggers would be back home in a week or two. The thing made a big stir in the town, too, and a good many come
19out flatfooted and said it was scandalous to separate the mother and the children that way. It injured the frauds some;
20but the old fool he bulled right along, spite of all the duke could say or do, and I tell you the duke was powerful
21uneasy. Next day was auction day. About broad day in the morning the king and the duke come up in the garret and woke me
22up, and I see by their look that there was trouble. The king says: "Was you in my room night before last?" "No, your
23majesty"--which was the way I always called him when nobody but our gang warn't around. "Was you in there yisterday er
24last night?" "No, your majesty." "Honor bright, now--no lies." "Honor bright, your majesty, I'm telling you the truth. I
25hain't been a-near your room since Miss Mary Jane took you and the duke and showed it to you." The duke says: "Have you
26seen anybody else go in there?" "No, your grace, not as I remember, I believe." "Stop and think." I studied awhile and
27see my chance; then I says: "Well, I see the niggers go in there several times." Both of them gave a little jump, and
28looked like they hadn't ever expected it, and then like they had. Then the duke says: "What, all of them?"
29"No--leastways, not all at once--that is, I don't think I ever see them all come out at once but just one time." "Hello!
30When was that?" "It was the day we had the funeral. In the morning. It warn't early, because I overslept. I was just
31starting down the ladder, and I see them." "Well, go on, go on! What did they do? How'd they act?" "They didn't do
32nothing. And they didn't act anyway much, as fur as I see. They tiptoed away; so I seen, easy enough, that they'd shoved
33in there to do up your majesty's room, or something, s'posing you was up; and found you warn't up, and so they was
34hoping to slide out of the way of trouble without waking you up, if they hadn't already waked you up." "Great guns, this
35is a go!" says the king; and both of them looked pretty sick and tolerable silly. They stood there a-thinking and
36scratching their heads a minute, and the duke he bust into a kind of a little raspy chuckle, and says: "It does beat all
37how neat the niggers played their hand. They let on to be sorry they was going out of this region! And I believed they
38was sorry, and so did you, and so did everybody. Don't ever tell me any more that a nigger ain't got any histrionic
39talent. Why, the way they played that thing it would fool anybody. In my opinion, there's a fortune in 'em. If I had
40capital and a theater, I wouldn't want a better lay-out than that--and here we've gone and sold 'em for a song. Yes, and
41ain't privileged to sing the song yet. Say, where is that song--that draft?" "In the bank for to be collected. Where
42would it be?" "Well, that's all right then, thank goodness." Says I, kind of timid-like: "Is something gone wrong?" The
43king whirls on me and rips out: "None o' your business! You keep your head shet, and mind y'r own affairs--if you got
44any. Long as you're in this town don't you forgit that--you hear?" Then he says to the duke, "We got to jest swaller it
45and say noth'n': mum's the word for us." As they was starting down the ladder the duke he chuckles again, and says:
46"Quick sales and small profits! It's a good business--yes." v The king snarls around on him and says: "I was trying to
47do for the best in sellin' 'em out so quick. If the profits has turned out to be none, lackin' considable, and none to
48carry, is it my fault any more'n it's yourn?" "Well, they'd be in this house yet and we wouldn't if I could a got my
49advice listened to." The king sassed back as much as was safe for him, and then swapped around and lit into me again. He
50give me down the banks for not coming and telling him I see the niggers come out of his room acting that way--said any
51fool would a knowed something was up. And then waltzed in and cussed himself awhile, and said it all come of him not
52laying late and taking his natural rest that morning, and he'd be blamed if he'd ever do it again. So they went off
53a-jawing; and I felt dreadful glad I'd worked it all off on to the niggers, and yet hadn't done the niggers no harm by
54it.
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