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Chapter XVII

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I crept to their doors and listened; ssssssssss

they was snoring, so I tip-toed along, ssssssssss

and got down stairs all right. There ssssssssss

warn't a sound anywheres. I peeped ssssssssss

through a crack of the dining-room ssssssssss

door, and see the men that was watch- ssssssssss

ing the corpse all sound asleep on ssssssssss

their chairs. The door was open ssssssssss

into the parlor, where the corpse ssssssssss

was laying, and there was a candle ssssssssss

in both rooms. I passed along, and ssssssssss

the parlor door was open; but I see ssssssssss

there warn't nobody in there but the ssssssssss

remainders of Peter; so I shoved on ssssssssss

by; but the front door was locked, ssssssssss

and the key wasn't there. Just ssssssssss

then I heard somebody coming down ssssssssss

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 bag was in the coffin. The lid was shoved

along about a foot, showing the dead man's face down in there, with a wet cloth

over it, and his shroud on. I tucked the money-bag in under the lid, just

down beyond where his hands was crossed, which made me creep, they was

so cold, and then I run back across the room and in behind the door.

The person coming was Mary Jane. She went to the coffin, very soft, and

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