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Iness. By and by I heard the king and the duke come up; so I rolled off my pallet and laid with my chin at the top of my ladder,
and waited to see if anything was going to happen. But nothing did. So I held on till all the late sounds had quit and the early ones hadn't begun yet; and then I slipped down the ladder. CHAPTER XXVII. I CREPT to their doors and listened; they was snoring. So I tiptoed along, and got
down stairs all right. There warn't
a sound anywheres. I peeped through a crack of the dining-room door,

and see the men that was watching the corpse all sound asleep on their chairs. The
door was open into the parlor, where the
corpse was laying, and there was a candle in both rooms. I passed along, and the parlor door was open; but I see there warn't nobody in there but the remainders of Peter; so I shoved on by; but the front door was locked, and the
key wasn't there. Just then I heard
somebody coming down 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 kneeled down and looked in; then she put up her handkerchief,
and I see 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 thought I'd make sure them watchers hadn't seen me; so I looked through
the crack, and everything was all right. They hadn't stirred. I slipped up to bed, feeling ruther blue, on accounts of the thing playing out that way after I had took so 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 the river
a hundred mile or two I could write back to
Mary Jane, and she could dig him up again and get it;