? ? ? ? "I hain't ever done you no harm. You know that. So then, what you want to come back and ha'nt me for?"
? ? ? ? I says:
? ? ? ? "I hain't come back- I hain't been gone."
? ? ? ? When he heard my voice, it righted him up some, but he warn't quite satisfied yet. He says:
? ? ? ? "Don't you play nothing on me, because I wouldn't on you. Honest injun, now, you ain't a ghost?"
? ? ? ? "Honest injun, I ain't," I says.
? ? ? ? "Well- I- I- well, that ought to settle it, of course; but I can't somehow seem to understand it, no way. Looky here, warn't you ever murdered at all?"
? ? ? ? "No. I warn't ever murdered at all- I played it on them. You come in here and feel of me if you don't believe me."
? ? ? ? So he done it; and it satisfied him; and he was that glad to see me again, he didn't know what to do.
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