the dead man - 27. the deceiver

by nick nelson

part twenty-seven of 31

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it seems to me you have been misleading me, young man. i will let it pass, but others similarly deceived might not. but i was not trying to fool you, sir. i honestly do not know myself. i find that hard to believe. what do you think, citizen? it could be. i was wondering about him myself. hmm. and so you really do not know if you are one or the other. maybe he is an indian. or a chinaman. no, my mama was white. maybe your daddy was an indian or a chinaman. i never thought of that. but you say your mother was white. yes, she was. your daddy, she never probably knew herself. surely you can believe that, old man. in pharoah’s time it was the most important thing in the world for a man to know who his father was. i guess pharoah is not around any more. but you’re sure your mother was white. she was as white as the woman on the one dollar blll. no woman on the one dollar bill. george washington is on the one dollar bill. she was as white as george washington. you know, some white men might not like it either if they thought it was the other way around, you was pretending to be one thing and really the other. i know that. i been there too. next