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practice, and he again took the most impious oaths that 

 he had no other money of any sort than the two five-dol 

 lar pieces I had given him. 



" Well/' I said, " I care not for your lies. I will see, 

 when we stop, if I can't get back my money." 



My eye was still on the fellow, for I saw he was not 

 comfortable, when he again came back to me with his 

 lantern, and, looking on the floor, asked me to raise my 

 foot, pretending that he thought the gold piece might 

 have accidentally fallen down. 



"I will see you at the devil first," I replied, " into 

 whose custody you eventually will be sure to fall, ere I 

 stir a foot. You have got the money, and from you I 

 will have it when the train stops." 



"We were then slackening speed to approach the plat 

 form of the station at which we were to stop for supper, 

 and he advanced to go out (as officials of this sort often 

 do) before the train had 'ceased its motion, the door be 

 ing partly open, I then got up, and, laying my hand on 

 the handle, closed the door entirely, saying, " No, my 

 fine fellow, you and I get out together, but not till the 

 train has come to a stand-still." He did not like this, 

 but, seeing no help for it, he again went back to his cor 

 ner, and, just as we came to a halt, reappeared before me 

 with a lot of silver in his hand, proving how impious 

 were the lies he had told as to his having no money, and 

 which was evidently more than the change out of the 

 two gold pieces, and it was asserted by him to" be the 

 amount of the third gold piece. It looked something- 

 near it ; so, having to get my supper, with a very little 

 time to swallow it in, I told him it would be better for 

 him if I found the change to be all right, when I had 

 time to count it, and then I went into a room, where 



