Jubiter broke for
the woods to hide, and I reckon the game was for him
to slide out, in the night, and leave the country.
Then Brace would make everybody believe Uncle Silas
killed him and hid his body somers; and that would
ruin Uncle Silas and drive HIM out of the country --
hang him, maybe; I dunno. But when they found
their dead brother in the sycamores without knowing
him, because he was so battered up, they see they had
a better thing; disguise BOTH and bury Jake and dig
him up presently all dressed up in Jubiter's clothes,
and hire Jim Lane and Bill Withers and the others to
swear to some handy lies -- which they done. And
there they set, now, and I told them they would be
looking sick before I got done, and that is the way
they're looking now.
"Well, me and Huck Finn here, we come down on
the boat with the thieves, and the dead one told us all
about the di'monds, and said the others would murder
him if they got the chance; and we was going to help
him all we could. We was bound for the sycamores
when we heard them killing him in there; but we was
in there in the early morning after the storm and
allowed nobody hadn't been killed, after all. And
when we see Jubiter Dunlap here spreading around in
the very same disguise Jake told us HE was going to
wear, we thought it was Jake his own self -- and he was
goo-gooing deef and dumb, and THAT was according to
agreement.
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