She seed some mighty suspicious things about him from the word go.

She'd allers had her doubts whether he was jist the thing, and ef her ole man had axed her, liker-n not he never'd a been hired.

She'd seed things with her own livin' eyes that beat all she ever seed in all her born days.

And Pete Jones said he'd allers knowed ther warn't no good in sech a feller.

Couldn't stay abed when he got there.