r Jake when he was laying dead, after Jake
had stole them from the other thieves; but Jubiter didn't know he was
stealing them; and he's been swelling around here with them a month;
yes, sir, twelve thousand dollars' worth of di'monds on him--all that
riches, and going around here every day just like a poor man. Yes, your
honor, he's got them on him now."

The judge spoke up and says:

"Search him, sheriff."

Well, sir, the sheriff he ransacked him high and low, and everywhere:
searched his hat, socks, seams, boots, everything--and Tom he stood there
quiet, laying for another of them effects of hisn. Finally the sheriff
he give it up, and everybody looked disappointed, and Jubiter says:

"There, now! what'd I tell you?"

And the judge says:

"It appears you were mistaken this time, my boy."

Then Tom took an attitude and let on to be studying with all his might,
and scratching his head. Then all of a sudden he glanced up chipper, and
says:

"Oh, now I've got it! I'd forgot."

Which was a lie, and I knowed it. Then he says:

"Will somebody be good enough to lend me a little small screwdriver?
There was one in your brother's hand-bag that you smouched, Jubiter, but
I reckon you didn't fetch it with you."

"No, I didn't. I didn't want it, and I give it away."

"That's because you didn't know what it was for."

Jubiter had his boots on again, by now, and when the thing Tom wanted
was passed over the people's heads till it got to him, he says to
Jubiter:

"Put up your foot on this chair." And he kneeled down and begun to
unscrew the heel-plate, everybody watching; and when he got that big
di'mond out of that boot-heel and held it up and let it flash and blaze
and squirt sunlight everwhichaway, it just took everybody's breath; and
Jubiter he looked so sick and sorry you never see the like of it. And
when Tom held up the other di'mond he looked sorrier than ever. Land! he
was thinking how he would 'a' skipped out and been rich and independent
in a foreign land if he'd only had the luck to guess what the
screwdriver was in the carpet-bag for.

Well, it was a most exciting time, take it all around, and Tom got cords
of glory. The judge took the di'monds, and stood up in his pulpit, and
cleared his throat, and shoved his spectacles back on his head, and
says:

"I'll keep them and notify the owners; and when they send for them it
will be a real pleasure to me to hand you the two thousand dollars,
for you've e