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Dynamite!

[Appeals to ]

I didn’t do it! I swear on a stack o’ Bibles I didn’t!

[Lays her hand on him protectingly]

’Course you didn’t! Don’t you worry! They shan’t tetch you!

It ’us Him up yonder! He done it! [He turns to the men] I know you won’t believe me, O ye o’ little faith! But if it’s the last word I ever utter on earth, He appeared to me in the storm an’ I hyeard His voice!

[ stands staring at .]

Don’t pay no ’tention to them Pharisees, Rufe! Go right on an’ tell what happened!