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Well, he wanted somethin' for it, didn't he?
What was it ?" "Why, he just wanted to know if I'd heard Uncle Charlie say anything about a lot of money being gone up to the bank.

He said he had heard it was ever and ever so much--a hundred hundred dollars--or a thousand dollars, or something--I don't precactly remember, but it was a great, big lot.

And he wanted to know if Uncle Charlie had said how much it was and what had become of it and--and everything.

When I said Uncle Charlie hadn't said a word he looked so sort of disappointed and funny that it made me laugh." It did not make Jed laugh.