Half past two
So I slid out and slipped off up the road , and there war n't anybody at the church , except maybe a hog or two , for there war n't any lock on the door , and hogs likes a puncheon floor in summer-time because it 's cool . If you notice , most folks do n't go to church only when they 've got to ; but a hog is different . Says I to myself , something 's up ; it ai n't natural for a girl to be in such a sweat about a Testament . So I give it a shake , and out drops a little piece of paper with '' _ Half past two _ '' wrote on it with a pencil . I ransacked it , but could n't find anything else . I could n't make anything out of that , so I put the paper in the book again , and when I got home and upstairs there was Miss Sophia in her door waiting for me . She pulled me in and shut the door ; then she looked in the Testament till she found the paper , and as soon as she read it she looked glad ; and before a body could think she grabbed me and give me a squeeze , and said I was the best boy in the world , and not to tell anybody .