Part 31 (1/2)
Injun Joe got up and went about fro out Presently he said:
”Who could have brought those tools here? Do you reckon they can be upstairs?”
The boys' breath forsook them Injun Joe put his hand on his knife, halted a moment, undecided, and then turned toward the stairway The boys thought of the closet, but their strength was gone The steps ca up the stairs--the intolerable distress of the situation woke the stricken resolution of the lads--they were about to spring for the closet, when there was a crash of rotten tiround aathered hi, and his comrade said:
”Nohat's the use of all that? If it's anybody, and they're up there, let them _stay_ there--who cares? If they want to juet into trouble, who objects? It will be dark in fifteen minutes--and then let the In ht of us and took us for ghosts or devils or soruht was left ought to be econo
Shortly afterward they slipped out of the house in the deepening twilight, and moved toward the river with their precious box
Tom and Huck rose up, weak but vastly relieved, and stared after thes of the house Follow? Not they They were content to reach ground again without broken necks, and take the toard track over the hill They did not talkthe ill luck that made them take the spade and the pick there But for that, Injun Joe never would have suspected He would have hidden the silver with the gold to wait there till his ”revenge” was satisfied, and then he would have had theBitter, bitter luck that the tools were ever brought there!
They resolved to keep a lookout for that Spaniard when he should coeful job, and follow hihastly thought occurred to Toe? What if he means _us_, Huck!”
”Oh, don't!” said Huck, nearly fainting
They talked it all over, and as they entered town they agreed to believe that he ht at least mean nobody but Tom, since only Tom had testified
Very, very ser! Coht
CHAPTER XXVII
THE adventure of the day ht
Four times he had his hands on that rich treasure and four tiers as sleep forsook hiht back the hard reality of histhe incidents of his great adventure, he noticed that they seemed curiously subdued and far away--somewhat as if they had happened in another world, or in a tireat adventure itself ument in favor of this idea--namely, that the quantity of coin he had seen was too vast to be real He had never seen as much as fifty dollars in one e and station in life, in that he iined that all references to ”hundreds” and ”thousands” were mere fanciful forms of speech, and that no such sums really existed in the world He never had supposed for a e a sum as a hundred dollars was to be found in actual money in any one's possession If his notions of hidden treasure had been analyzed, they would have been found to consist of a handful of real diraspable dollars
But the incidents of his adventure grew sensibly sharper and clearer under the attrition of thinking the to the iht not have been a dream, after all This uncertainty must be swept away He would snatch a hurried breakfast and go and find Huck Huck was sitting on the gunwale of a flatboat, listlessly dangling his feet in the water and looking very melancholy Tom concluded to let Huck lead up to the subject If he did not do it, then the adventure would be proved to have been only a dream
”hello, Huck!”
”hello, yourself”
Silence, for a minute
”Tom, if we'd 'a' left the blaot the money Oh, ain't it awful!”
”'Tain't a dream, then, 'tain't a drea'd if I don't, Huck”
”What ain't a drea it was”
”Dream! If them stairs hadn't broke down you'd 'a' seen how ht--with that patch-eyed Spanish devil going for h 'em--rot him!”