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At the end he come over and says: 'This here means ruinin' my life and breakin' Mattie's heart ... but I calc'late that's better 'n holdin' father up to scorn and seein' him in jail.... If they was only some other way! His voice was stiddylike, but he was right pale and his eyes was a-shinin'. I remember how they was a-shinin'. 'I calc'late, he says, 'that I kin bear it fer father's sake. Then he says to me, kind of fierce, 'If ever you let on to anybody why I done this, if it's in a hunderd years, I'll come back and kill you. For a while he kept still again, and then he went in the house and got the money, and wrote a letter to his old man, and I promised to give it to him but I tore it up."
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