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What was you goin' to do with the four hundred, provided you had kept it?
You spent the money I lost anyway; you said you did.

What did you spend it for ?" "Oh--oh, some things I needed." "Sho! Is that so?
What things ?" Jed's shaking hand moved across his chin.
"Oh--I--I forget," he faltered.

Then, after a desperate struggle, "I--I--I bought a suit of clothes." The effort of this confession was a peculiar one.

Captain Sam Hunniwell put back his head and roared with laughter.