I don't know what's come over the feller,' says Purse.

'I told him the time was gittin' short an' we'd have to git in our best licks, an' he said he guessed he'd done about all 't he could, an' in fact,' says Purse, 'he seemed to 'a' lost int'rist in the hull thing.'" "What did you say ?" John asked.
"Wa'al," said David with a grin, "Purse went on to allow 't he guessed somebody's pocketbook had ben talkin', but I didn't say much of anythin', an' putty soon come away.

Two three days after," he continued, "I see Tenaker agin.

'I hear Staples has gone out o' town,' he says, 'an' I hear, too,' he says, 'that he's kind o' soured on the hull thing--didn't care much how it did come out.' "'Wa'al,' I says, 'when he comes back you c'n use your own judgment about havin' a little interview with him.

Mebbe somethin' 's made him think the's two sides to this thing.