SO I started for town in the wagon, and when I was half-way I see a wagon coming, and sure enough it was Tom Sawyer, and I stopped and waited till he come along. I says "Hold on!" and it stopped alongside, and his mouth opened up like a trunk, and stayed so; and he swallowed two or three times like a person that's got a dry throat, and then says:

     "I hain't ever done you no harm. You know that. So, then, what you want to come back and ha'nt ME for?"

     I says:

     "I hain't come back--I hain't been GONE."

     When he heard my voice it righted him up some, but he warn't quite satisfied yet. He says:

     "Don't you play nothing on me, because I wouldn't on you. Honest injun, you ain't a ghost?"

     "Honest injun, I ain't," I says.

     "Well--I--I--well, that ought to settle it, of course; but I can't somehow seem to understand it no way. Looky here, warn't you ever murdered AT ALL?"

     "No. I warn't ever murdered at all--I played it on them. You come in here and feel of me if you don't believe me."