It's Jake Dunlap his own self!" "Oh your granny!" I says. Huck Finn, did we find any corpse in the sycamores?" "No." "Or any sign of one?" "No." "Mighty good reason. Hadn't ever been any corpse there." "Why, Tom, you know we heard-" "Yes, we did-heard a howl or two. Does that prove anybody was killed? Course it don't. And we seen four men run, then this one come walking out and we took it for a ghost. No more ghost than you are. It was Jake Dunlap his own self, and it's Jake Dunlap now. He's been and got his hair cropped, the way he said he would, and he's playing himself for a stranger, just the same as he said he would.