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THE INVESTIGATING COMMITTEE.

out even so much as sayin’, ‘ Many thanks to you, Mistress
Scrubbs, for all past kindnesses,’ which was most numerous,
though she said it, who shouldn’t say it, —leastwise she wasn’t
never no kind of a person to be lookin’ for thanks every
minnit. It was really scanderlous, though, tobe sure, Mister
‘iggs paid up everythin’ to the last farthin’; and it fairly
brought tears to her eyes to see his dear empty boots lyin’
there in the corner of his room, which alone showed trouble
of mind; for he always stood ’em up astraight as solgers,