"Well, come in and let's have a bite to eat." 7 Virginia was staying with them the rest of the night; but as I helped her out, feeling in her stiffness that she was offended with me, I insisted that I would go on home.

The judge, who had been ready to abuse me a moment before, now took hold of me and forced me into the house.

As we went in carrying the satchel, he lifted it up on the table.
"We may as well take a look at it," said he.
Mrs.Stone and Virginia and I all stood by the table as he unsnapped the catch and opened the bag.

It was full almost to the top.
"That ain't the way I packed that money!" said the judge.
His hands trembled as he pulled the contents out.

It was full of the bags and wrappers in which the money had been packed, according to the judge's tell; but there was no money in the wrappers, and the bags were full, not of coins, but of common salt.