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give me the cold shivers, and I see we hadn't no time to lose. So Tom said,

now for the nonnamous letters. ssssssssss

"What's them?" I says.

"Warnings to the people that something is up. Sometimes it's done one

way, sometimes another. But there's always somebody spying around, that gives

notice to the governor of the castle. When Louis XVI was going to light out of

the Tooleries, a servant girl done it. It's a very good way, and so is the non-

namous letters. We'll use them both. And it's usual for the prisoner's mother

to change clothes with him, and she stays in, and he slides out in her clothes.

We'U do that too." ssssssssss

"But looky here, Tom, what do we want to warn anybody for, that some-

thing's up? Let them find it out for themselves -- it's their lookout."

"Yes, I know.; but you can't depend on them. It's the way they've acted

from the very start -- left us to do everything. They're so confiding and mullet-

headed they don't take notice of nothing at all. So if we don't give them notice,

there won't be nobody nor nothing to interfere with us, and so after all our

hard work and trouble this escape 'll go off perfectly flat: won't amount to noth-

ing -- won't be nothing to it." ssssssssss

"Well, as for me, Tom, that's the way I'd like."

"Shucks," he says, and looked disgusted. So I says:

"But I ain't going to make no complaint. Anyway that suits you suits me.

What you going to do about the servant-girl?"

"You'll be her. You slide in, in the middle of the night, and hook that

yaller girl's frock." ssssssssss

"Why, Tom, that'll make trouble next morning; because of course she prob'-

bly hain't got any but that one." ssssssssss

"I know; but you don't want it but fifteen minutes, to carry the nonnamous

letter and shove it under the front door."

"All right, then, I'll do it; but I could carry it just as handy in my own

togs."

"You wouldn't look like a servant-girl then, would you?"

"No, but there won't be nobody to see what I look like, anyway."

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