Folks around here
made a good deal of fuss over the way things turned out, but I don't,
take any more credit than's my due, so I say it just happened that I
didn't try to run further.
"The two men outside unlocked the back door and the one inside came
on to the step.
"'There's nothin' in the box and nobody in here,' says he. 'She's
jumped out o' bed and run and carried the cash with her.'
"'Did you look under the bed?' says one of the outsiders. And he ran
and looked himself; anyway, he went in the house and came out again.
I was glad I hadn't got under the bed.
"'This job has to be done quick,' says the first one. 'And the best
way is to ketch the woman and make her give up or tell where the
stuff is hid. She ain't got far, because I heard her open this door.'
"Then they must have seen the cave door stannin' open. I heard them
say something about 'cave,' and come runnin' up.
"'Hold on,' says one, and he fires a pistol-shot right into the
cave. I was down with my mouth to the ground, flat as I could lay,
but the sound of a gun always made me holler out, and holler I did as
the ball seemed to come thud! right at me; but it stuck in the back
of the cave.
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