Part 31 (2/2)
”No, not rot him _Find_ him! Track the money!”
”Tom, we'll never find him A feller don't have only one chance for such a pile--and that one's lost I'd feel hty shaky if I was to see him, anyway”
”Well, so'd I; but I'd like to see him, anyway--and track him out--to his Nu 'bout that But I can'tout of it What do you reckon it is?”
”I dono It's too deep Say, Huck--maybe it's the number of a house!”
”Goody! No, Tom, that ain't it If it is, it ain't in this one-horse town They ain't no numbers here”
”Well, that's so Lemme think a minute Here--it's the number of a room--in a tavern, you know!”
”Oh, that's the trick! They ain't only two taverns We can find out quick”
”You stay here, Huck, till I come”
Tom was off at once He did not care to have Huck's coone half an hour He found that in the best tavern, No
2 had long been occupied by a young lawyer, and was still so occupied
In the less ostentatious house, No 2 was ason said it was kept locked all the tio into it or coht; he did not know any particular reason for this state of things; had had some little curiosity, but it was rather feeble; hadhimself with the idea that that rooht in there the night before
”That's what I've found out, Huck I reckon that's the very No 2 we're after”
”I reckon it is, To to do?”
”Le time Then he said:
”I'll tell you The back door of that No 2 is the door that comes out into that little close alley between the tavern and the old rattle trap of a brick store Now you get hold of all the doorkeys you can find, and I'll nip all of auntie's, and the first dark night we'll go there and try 'em And mind you, keep a lookout for Injun Joe, because he said he was going to drop into town and spy around once e If you see hio to that No 2, that ain't the place”
”Lordy, I don't want to foller hihtn't ever see you--and if he did, ”
”Well, if it's pretty dark I reckon I'll track him I dono--I dono I'll try”
”You bet I'll follow hiht 'a' found out he couldn't get his revenge, and be going right after that money”
”It's so, Tooes!”
”Now you're _talking_! Don't you ever weaken, Huck, and I won't”
CHAPTER XXVIII