Beadle's Dime Novels No. 126: Old Jupe — page 41: what you’re looking at

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A SUREWD SUSPICION. 43 “Who's Jupe? I was not talking about dogs,” said the lawyer, who was usually very good-natured to auntie. “ He’s my husban’, I reckon, an’ de berry nigger dat dis- covered dem counterfighters. Tell ye w’at it is, Lawyer Harding, niggers no business putting in der noise; but I specks and believes J knows who’s Miss Bryant’s epee - can’t prove it, fer I nebber seed nuffin, but ivs my ’pression.” “Who ?? was the eager response. : “ Mrs. Bryant’s own half-sister, an’ I will: say 0% if you do take my head off for it, Miss Mary.” | | “Ts this.so?” he asked, turning to his client. “No, sir. No one could be kinder or better to me than she. She is as innocentas I am. I don’t know what put such a wild notion into Clare’s head; but there it is, and I can’t move her. She gives me unnecessary pain by such talk.” | | “Pil take my asservation of it,’ muttered auntie to her- self. Improbable as such a thing seemed, there being no more reason to think Mrs. Parcell capable of such crime than Mrs. Bryant, the very suggestion was enough to make Mr. Hard- ing ponder it. The next opportunity which he obtained to talk alone with auntie, he asked her a hundred questions about Annette—her habits, her sayings, and doings when home. What reason she had for thinking she hated her sis- ter, etc., etc. Out of all Clare’s “ asservations,’ he could get no Fats, nothing but that she’d seen Miss. Nettie look at her sister with eyes like a rattlesnake, an assertion not of much weight before a jury. Yet, there was some thing of the ut- most importance, could it be proved, viz, that Jupe had re- cognized Parcell among the men in the cave who were manu- facturing money. But, how could he prove it? Jupe was a slave, and could not testify against a white man. Besides which, it was probable that Jupe was mistaken, as no Par- cell was found the next night when the gang was arrested. Again, even were it Parcell, would not the fact tell strongly against the prisoner? It might implicate Parcell and_ his wife, but it would not free Mrs. Bryant. On the contrary, it Would only increase the feeling against the whole family> Old Mr. Miller, who was confined in a room near his Comicboooks.com