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faint, stopped her.
"Stop now. I will settle with him."
His authoritative air quieted her, but she still stood glowering and
muttering her wrath.
"You will have that money back here by to-morrow at this hour or I
will put you in the penitentiary, where you have already been once and
ought to be now. And now you will take my cigars out of your pocket,
or I will hand you to that policeman out there at the door. Out with
them."
"Boss, I ain't got no cigars o' yo's. I 'll swar to it on de wud o'----"
"Out with them--or--" Mr. Graeme turned to open the door. The negro,
after a glance at Mam' Lyddy, slowly took several cigars from his

pockets.
"Dese is all de cigars I has--and dey wuz given to me by a friend," he
said, surlily.
"Yes, by my little boy. I know. Lay them there. I will keep them till
to-morrow. And now go and get that money."
"What money?--I can't git dat money--dat money is invested."
"Then you bring the securities in which it is invested. I know where
that money went. You go and rob some one else--but have that money
at my office to-morrow before three o'clock or I 'll put you in jail
to-morrow night. And if you ever put your foot on this place or speak
to that old woman again, I 'll have you arrested. Do you understand!"
"Yes, sir."
"Now go." He opened the door.
"Officer, do you recognize this man!"
"Yes, sir, I know him."
"Well, I am going to let him go for the present"
The Rev. Amos was already slinking down the street. Mr. Graeme
turned to the old woman.
"You want recognition?"
"Nor, suh, I don't" She gave a whimper. "I wants my money. I wants to
git hold of dat black nigger what 's done rob me talkin' 'bout bein' sich a
friend o' Caesar's."
"Do you want to go home?"
"Dis is my home." She spoke humbly, but firmly.

Two days afterward Mrs. Graeme said:
"Cabell, Mammy is converted. It is like old times."
"I think it will last," said her husband. "She is out four hundred and
fifty-five dollars, and the Mount Salem flock is temporarily without a
shepherd. The Rev. Amos Johnson was gathered in this morning for
fleecing one of his sheep and signing the wrong name to a check."

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