I pees a friend to everypody what needs a friend,
and now what I needs mineshelf is one goot friend. You she, mine
taughter, if mine little farm he pees gone, and if mine sheep, and mine
cows, and mine everything pees gone, den der is nothin' for mine Tite
when he comes home."
The old man paused for a moment. It was impossible for him to keep the
secret of his trouble from Mattie any longer. He opened his heart to her
and disclosed the fact that it was her own father who had brought sorrow
into his home. Yes, it was her father who had led him like a child into
trouble, and then thrown around his acts such a chain of suspicious
circumstances that you could scarcely find a man in the village, where
but a short time ago Hanz was so great a favorite, who did not believe
him guilty of inventing the Kidd Discovery Company, and bringing ruin
and distress on his neighbors. There was the paper Hanz had signed,
setting forth that he possessed the secret of where Kidd's treasure was
buried, and bearing the proof that he had sold it for a consideration.
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