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"Do you know," said Mitch, "them pictures your grandma had of soldiers stay in my mind. They looked old and grown up with beards and everything; but after all, they're not so old and they went away and was killed and lots of 'em are buried up there some without names. Think of it, Skeet.
He tried to whirl her in some crazy dance, but Gimp was swinging along the slushy walk on his crutches. His grin was a mile wide. Mitch Storey was with him, looking almost as pleased. "Guess legs don't count, Out There," Gimp was saying. "Or patched tickers, either, as long as they work good!
And at one side there was a separate building where the clerks of the courts had their offices. I knew all the lay of the land. So I took Mitch into the clerk's office and showed him papers which Linkern had written and signed. At first he wouldn't believe it.
And all of a sudden I saw two lights, then more lights, then fire shot straight up from smokestacks. It was a steamboat. It must be the City of Peoria, from St. Louis. I shook Mitch and got him to. He rubbed his eyes, then jumped up sudden and strong. He stood up and looked. "Skeet," he says, "there she is. Who knows Tom Sawyer may have seen her this week or last week?
Don't you remember when Tom was testifyin' agin him that he broke loose and jumped through the court house window and escaped, and nobody ever saw him again until Tom found his body at the door of McDougal's cave?" "Well," says I, "he might have been out on bail." "What's that?" said Mitch.
I told him Mitch and me was goin' to Havaner to see my pa who was there, and come back with him to-morrow. Then I took out my two dollars and showed him, and says, "That's for my fare, and Mitch has money, too." Willie Wallace says: "You don't need no fare just crawl up in the cupola of the caboose, and it will be all right.
"For swearin' a man's life away," repeated Major Abbott, kind of stunned. "That's what I'm obliged to do," said Mitch. "Well, one thing at a time, my boy," said the Major, a little friendlier. "Tell me now who told you about the obligations of an oath." "I've read about it," said Mitch. "Where?" "In Blackstone's Commentaries." "Where did you ever hear of Blackstone's Commentaries?"
But now it's just so much rags or paper, and I haven't got any use for it whatever. I am Huck Finn at last the money means nothing to me. It meant nothing to Huck, because when he got it, he had to put on shoes and dress up. And now I've got it, I've lost the only thing that made it worth while. I've lost Mitch who made it interestin' to get, and would have made it interestin' to spend."
He rose up as my pa came down the aisle and spoke to him, and they walked away together and up the hill, goin' home together with Mitch and me follerin'. When we got to our house pa says, "I'm goin' up to Mr. Miller's for dinner, you tell your ma." And they all went away together, Mr. Miller, my pa, and Mitch. I got back to the court room about ten minutes to one and only a few was there.
The scout was looking at Frank. "And your other friends?" "I'm thinking about it," Frank answered cagily. "Some of them aren't stopping on the Moon, as you can see." Mitch Storey was lashing a few flasks of oxygen and water to the rim of his bubb, being careful to space them evenly for static balance. He didn't have the money to buy much more, even here.
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