? ? ? ? "Miss Mary Jane, I'll tell you what we'll do- and you won't have to stay at Mr. Lathrop's so long, nuther. How fur is it?"
? ? ? ? "A little short of four miles- right out in the country, back here."
? ? ? ? "Well, that'll answer. Now you go along out there, and lay low till nine or half-past, to-night, and then get them to fetch you home again- tell them you've thought of something. If you get here before eleven, put a candle in this window, and if I don't turn up, wait till eleven, and then if I don't turn up it means I'm gone, and out of the way, and safe. Then you come out and spread the news around, and get these beats jailed."
? ? ? ? "Good," she says, "I'll do it."
? ? ? ? "And if it just happens so that I don't get away, but get took up along with them, you must up and say I told you the whole thing beforehand, and you must stand by me all you can."
? ? ? ? "Stand by you, indeed I will. They shan't touch a hair of your head!" she says, and I see her nostrils spread and her eyes snap when she said it, too.
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