Part 13 (2/2)
”Because he'd just got that whack when Injun Joe done it D'you reckon he could see anything? D'you reckon he knowed anything?”
”By hokey, that's so, Tom!”
”And besides, look-a-here--maybe that whack done for _him_!”
”No, 'taint likely, Tom He had liquor in him; I could see that; and besides, he always has Well, when pap's full, you ht take and belt him over the head with a church and you couldn't phase him He says so, his own self So it's the same with muff Potter, of course But if a ht fetch him; I dono”
After another reflective silence, Tom said:
”Hucky, you sure you can keep ot_ to keep mum You know that That Injun devil wouldn'tus than a couple of cats, if as to squeak 'bout this and they didn't hang him Now, look-a-here, Toot to do--swear to keepWould you just hold hands and swear that we--”
”Oh no, that wouldn't do for this That's good enough for little rubbishy coo back on you anyway, and blab if they get in a huff--but there orter be writing 'bout a big thing like this And blood”
To applauded this idea It was deep, and dark, and awful; the hour, the circu with it
He picked up a clean pine shi+ngle that lay in the ot the moon on his work, and painfully scrawled these lines, eue between his teeth, and letting up the pressure on the up-strokes [See next page]
”Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer swears they will keep mum about This and They wish They may Drop down dead in Their Tracks if They ever Tell and Rot”
Huckleberry was filled with ad, and the sublie He at once took a pin fro to prick his flesh, but Tom said:
”Hold on! Don't do that A pin's brass It rease?”
”It's p'ison That's what it is You just swaller some of it once--you'll see”
So Tom unwound the thread from one of his needles, and each boy pricked the ball of his thumb and squeezed out a drop of blood In tin his initials, using the ball of his little finger for a pen Then he showed Huckleberry how to make an H and an F, and the oath was cole close to the wall, with some dismal cereues were considered to be locked and the key throay
A figure crept stealthily through a break in the other end of the ruined building, now, but they did not notice it
”Tom,” whispered Huckleberry, ”does this keep us fro--_always_?”
”Of course it does It don't ot to keep mum We'd drop down dead--don't _you_ know that?”
”Yes, I reckon that's so”
They continued to whisper for soubrious howl just outside--within ten feet of theht
”Which of us does he asped Huckleberry