"We ain't thieves."
"Wall, I'm blamed if yer don't look like it."
"Sim, take a good look at those gents and if you happen to find any guns about their clothes just relieve them of them."
"Yassah," said the coon.
He got so close to Old King Brady that he suddenly detected the fact that the detective was wearing a wig and false beard.
The cunning negro did not let on what he had seen.
But he suddenly grabbed them and pulled them off the old detective.
It effected a startling change in Old King Brady's appearance, and Mason recognized him at once, and roared furiously:
"I'll be blest if it ain't those cussed detectives again!"
"Lawd amassy!" groaned Sim, all his courage departing, and he made a sudden dash for the swamp and rushed away, spattering up showers of mud and water.