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Updated: May 10, 2025
"Ev'body gottah look fur ring. I give a hunner 'n fifty dollah rewar'." Maudie stared at the princely offer. But instantly the commotion was greater than ever. "Ev'body" did what was expected of them, especially Mr. Butts. They flew about, looking in possible and impossible places, laughing, screaming, tumbling over one another. In the midst of the uproar French Charlie lurches up to Maudie.
He called this last to Jean, who was putting the finishing touches to the litter. "It is for M'sieu' Tom's own good that I mak' the reques'," replied Jean. "But for this, that you min' what ol' Jean tell you, I will give you the rewar'." His shrewd black eyes very tender, Jean fumbled in an inner pocket of his rough coat.
When Maudie reappeared, flushed, and with disordered hair, after her excursion under the counter, French Charlie confronted her. "Looky here. You treated me blame mean, Maudie; but wha'd' you say if I's to off' a rewar' for dat ring?" "Reward! A healthy lot o' good that would do." "Oh, very well; 'f you don' wan' de ring back " "I do, Charlie." He hammered on the bar.
"But what is your business?" asked Winthrop, with an indifference that he did not feel. "S-s-s-h-h! I'm cons'able. Tha's on the quiet. Thousand dollars rewar' f'r th' appr'enshun of 'Verlan' Red. Thought you was him hic hee! hee!" "Please don't laugh like that. It hurts my feelings," said Winthrop. "It is bad enough to be taken for a er tramp." "Nobody's feelin's pologishe. 'Course you ain' him!
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