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What’s Andy a-doin’ in the cellar?

Your folks put him thar!

What fer?

They thought mebby it ’us him that murdered you!

Then you didn’t tell ’em it ’us Him up yonder that done it?

I hain’t—yit!

No, an’ I reckon you hain’t found time to tell ’em ’bout seein’ me alive after the shootin’, neither?

Andy meant to kill you, Sid! An’ that’s the same thing! They wus murder in his heart!

Yeh, an’ I’m a-goin’ to find out why!

[He opens the cellar door and disappears inside.]