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Updated: June 4, 2025
Then Jubiter Dunlap stayed where he was, and the other man lugged the dead body off in the twilight; and after midnight he went to Uncle Silas's house, and took his old green work-robe off of the peg where it always hangs in the passage betwixt the house and the kitchen and put it on, and stole the long-handled shovel and went off down into the tobacker field and buried the murdered man."
He said he was going to prove that Uncle Silas was SEEN to kill Jubiter Dunlap by two good witnesses, and done it deliberate, and SAID he was going to kill him the very minute he hit him with the club; and they seen him hide Jubiter in the bushes, and they seen that Jubiter was stone-dead. And said Uncle Silas come later and lugged Jubiter down into the tobacker field, and two men seen him do it.
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. "Well, me and Huck went on hunting for the corpse after the others quit, and we found it.
All the hope we had was that Jake had got such a start that they couldn't get on his track, and he would get to his brother's and hide there and be safe. He was going to take the river road, and told us to find out if Brace and Jubiter was to home and no strangers there, and then slip out about sundown and tell him.
"I'm going, Pete," she whispered. "Not yet. It's only a taste of the salt from the sea," said Pete. "The moon's not out many minutes." "Why, you goose, it's been gone these two hours. This isn't Jupiter, where it's moonlight always." "Always moonlight in Jubiter, is it?" said Pete. "My goodness! What coorting there must be there!"
He stopped, and stood half a minute. Then "And who do you reckon the murdered man WAS? It was JAKE Dunlap, the long-lost burglar!" "Great Scott!" "And the man that buried him was BRACE Dunlap, his brother!" "Great Scott!" "And who do you reckon is this mowing idiot here that's letting on all these weeks to be a deef and dumb stranger? It's JUBITER Dunlap!"
Suspect HIM? Why, it ain't any more possible than " "By authority of the State of Arkansaw, I arrest you for the murder of Jubiter Dunlap!" shouts the sheriff at the door. It was awful.
They got a spade at the crib and dug out the body, and you never see such an excitement. You couldn't make anything out of the face, but you didn't need to. Everybody said: "Poor Jubiter; it's his clothes, to the last rag!" Some rushed off to spread the news and tell the justice of the peace and have an inquest, and me and Tom lit out for the house.
And said Uncle Silas turned out, away in the night, and buried Jubiter, and a man seen him at it.
He stole them from his brother Jake when he was laying dead, after Jake had stole them from the other thieves; but Jubiter didn't know he was stealing them; and he's been swelling around here with them a month; yes, sir, twelve thousand dollars' worth of di'monds on him all that riches, and going around here every day just like a poor man. Yes, your honor, he's got them on him now."
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