WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.160 --> 00:00:05.000 Tom Sawyer Detective by Mark Twain, Chapter one, an invitation 2 00:00:05.240 --> 00:00:09.640 for Tom and Huck. Note strange as the incidents of 3 00:00:09.720 --> 00:00:14.000 this story are, they are not inventions but facts, even 4 00:00:14.119 --> 00:00:17.640 to the public confession of the accused. I take them 5 00:00:17.679 --> 00:00:21.239 from an old time Swedish criminal trial, change the characters, 6 00:00:21.800 --> 00:00:25.879 and transfer the scenes to America. I have added some details, 7 00:00:26.039 --> 00:00:29.239 but only a couple of them are important ones. M 8 00:00:29.359 --> 00:00:33.439 T Well. It was the next spring after me and 9 00:00:33.560 --> 00:00:36.799 Tom Sawyer set our old nigger Jim free, the time 10 00:00:36.840 --> 00:00:39.399 he was chained up for a runaway slave down there 11 00:00:39.439 --> 00:00:43.560 on Tom's uncle Silas's farm in Arkansas. The frost was 12 00:00:43.600 --> 00:00:46.200 working out of the ground and out of the air too, 13 00:00:46.640 --> 00:00:49.640 and it was getting closer and closer onto barefoot time 14 00:00:49.759 --> 00:00:52.920 every day, and next it would be marble time, and 15 00:00:53.039 --> 00:00:57.960 next MUMBLETYPEG and next tops and hoops, and next kites, 16 00:00:58.359 --> 00:01:00.679 and then right away it would be summer and going 17 00:01:00.719 --> 00:01:03.880 in a swimming It just makes a boy homesick to 18 00:01:03.920 --> 00:01:07.920 look ahead like that and see how far off summer is, yes, 19 00:01:08.480 --> 00:01:11.719 and it sets him to sighing and saddening around, And 20 00:01:11.799 --> 00:01:14.079 there's something the matter with him, and you don't know what, 21 00:01:14.920 --> 00:01:18.439 but anyway, he gets out by himself and mopes and thinks, 22 00:01:18.879 --> 00:01:21.439 and mostly he hunts for a lonesome place high up 23 00:01:21.519 --> 00:01:23.599 on the hill in the edge of the woods, and 24 00:01:23.680 --> 00:01:26.920 sits there and looks away off on the big Mississippi 25 00:01:27.120 --> 00:01:30.680 down there, or reaching miles and miles around the points 26 00:01:30.719 --> 00:01:33.680 where the timber looks smoky and dim. It's so far 27 00:01:33.799 --> 00:01:37.079 off and still, and everything's so solemn. It seems like 28 00:01:37.200 --> 00:01:40.280 everybody you've loved is dead and gone, and you most 29 00:01:40.280 --> 00:01:42.959 wish you was dead and gone too, and done with 30 00:01:43.040 --> 00:01:47.400 it all. Don't you know what that is? It's spring fever, 31 00:01:47.959 --> 00:01:50.319 that is what the name of it is. And when 32 00:01:50.359 --> 00:01:53.280 you've got it, you want, Oh you don't quite know 33 00:01:53.519 --> 00:01:55.920 what it is you do want, but it just fairly 34 00:01:55.920 --> 00:01:58.680 makes your heart ache. You want it. So it seems 35 00:01:58.680 --> 00:02:01.439 to you that mainly what you want is to get away, 36 00:02:01.920 --> 00:02:04.719 get away from the same old, tedious things you're so 37 00:02:05.000 --> 00:02:08.360 used to seeing and so tired of, and set something new. 38 00:02:08.960 --> 00:02:11.680 That is the idea. You want to go and be 39 00:02:11.800 --> 00:02:14.840 a wanderer. You want to go wandering far away to 40 00:02:14.960 --> 00:02:20.120 strange countries where everything is mysterious and wonderful and romantic. 41 00:02:20.639 --> 00:02:22.919 And if you can't do that, you'll put up with 42 00:02:23.199 --> 00:02:26.560 considerable less. You'll go anywhere you can go, just so 43 00:02:26.680 --> 00:02:30.360 as to get away and be thankful of the chance too. Well, 44 00:02:31.000 --> 00:02:33.400 me and Tom Sawyer had the spring fever and had 45 00:02:33.439 --> 00:02:35.800 it bad too. But it weren't any use to think 46 00:02:35.840 --> 00:02:38.719 about Tom trying to get away, because, as he said, 47 00:02:38.960 --> 00:02:41.199 his aunt Polly wouldn't let him quit school and go 48 00:02:41.319 --> 00:02:45.240 trapsing off Somers wasting time. So we was pretty blue. 49 00:02:46.000 --> 00:02:48.759 We were sitting on the front steps one day about sundown, 50 00:02:48.879 --> 00:02:51.479 talking this way, when out comes his aunt Polly with 51 00:02:51.520 --> 00:02:54.919 a letter in her hand and says, Tom, I reckon, 52 00:02:54.919 --> 00:02:57.240 you've got to pack up and go down to Arkansas. 53 00:02:57.759 --> 00:03:01.319 Your aunt Sally wants you. I most jumped out of 54 00:03:01.319 --> 00:03:04.400 my skin for joy. I reckoned Tom would fly at 55 00:03:04.439 --> 00:03:06.719 his aunt and hug her head off. But if you 56 00:03:06.759 --> 00:03:10.240 believe me, he sat there like a rock and never 57 00:03:10.319 --> 00:03:12.639 said a word. It made me fit to cry to 58 00:03:12.680 --> 00:03:15.599 see him act so foolish with such a noble chance 59 00:03:15.639 --> 00:03:18.840 as this opening up. Why we might lose it if 60 00:03:18.840 --> 00:03:21.599 he didn't speak up and show he was thankful and grateful. 61 00:03:21.960 --> 00:03:25.319 But he sat there and studied and studied till I 62 00:03:25.439 --> 00:03:27.560 was that distressed. I didn't know what to do. And 63 00:03:27.639 --> 00:03:30.680 then he says, very calm, and I could have shot 64 00:03:30.759 --> 00:03:34.919 him for it. Well, he says, I'm right down, sorry, 65 00:03:34.960 --> 00:03:37.479 Aunt Polly, But I reckon, I got to be excused 66 00:03:37.840 --> 00:03:41.199 for the present. His Aunt Polly was knocked so stupid 67 00:03:41.199 --> 00:03:43.840 and so mad at the cold impudence of it, that 68 00:03:43.919 --> 00:03:45.879 she couldn't say a word for as much as half 69 00:03:45.960 --> 00:03:48.319 a minute. And this gave me a chance to nudge 70 00:03:48.319 --> 00:03:52.240 Tom and whisper, ain't you got any sense spiling such 71 00:03:52.240 --> 00:03:55.439 a noble chance as this and throwing it away? But 72 00:03:55.479 --> 00:03:59.759 he warn't disturbed. He mumbled back, huck finn, do you 73 00:03:59.759 --> 00:04:02.240 want want me to let her see how bad I 74 00:04:02.319 --> 00:04:05.840 want to go? Why she'd begin to doubt right away, 75 00:04:05.879 --> 00:04:08.800 and imagine a lot of sickness and dangers and objections, 76 00:04:09.039 --> 00:04:11.800 and first you know she'd take it all back. You 77 00:04:12.080 --> 00:04:14.599 let me alone, I reckon, I know how to work 78 00:04:14.639 --> 00:04:18.079 her now. I never would have thought of that. But 79 00:04:18.199 --> 00:04:22.120 he was right. Tom Sawyer was always right, the levelest 80 00:04:22.160 --> 00:04:25.600 head I ever see, and always at himself and ready 81 00:04:25.639 --> 00:04:28.439 for anything you might spring on him. By this time, 82 00:04:28.759 --> 00:04:31.600 his Aunt Polly was all straight again, and she let fly. 83 00:04:32.079 --> 00:04:36.560 She says, you'll be excused you will well, I never 84 00:04:36.639 --> 00:04:38.759 heard the like of it in all my days, the 85 00:04:38.839 --> 00:04:41.759 idea of you talking like that to me. Now take 86 00:04:41.839 --> 00:04:44.360 yourself off and pack your traps. And if I hear 87 00:04:44.399 --> 00:04:47.079 another word out of you about what you'll be excused 88 00:04:47.079 --> 00:04:50.040 from and what you won't, I lay I'll excuse you 89 00:04:50.319 --> 00:04:53.360 with a hickory. She hit his head a thump with 90 00:04:53.480 --> 00:04:56.279 her thimble as we dodged by, and he led on 91 00:04:56.480 --> 00:04:59.279 to be whimpering. As we struck for the stairs up 92 00:04:59.319 --> 00:05:01.439 in his room. He hugged me. He was so out 93 00:05:01.480 --> 00:05:04.040 of his head for gladness because he was going traveling, 94 00:05:04.240 --> 00:05:06.720 and he says, before we get away, she'll wish she 95 00:05:06.759 --> 00:05:09.160 hadn't let me go, but she won't know any way 96 00:05:09.160 --> 00:05:12.199 to get around it now after what she said, her 97 00:05:12.199 --> 00:05:15.279 pride won't let her take it back. Tom was packed 98 00:05:15.279 --> 00:05:18.240 in ten minutes, all except what his aunt and Mary 99 00:05:18.279 --> 00:05:21.319 would finish up for him. Then we waited ten more 100 00:05:21.360 --> 00:05:24.079 for her to get cooled down and sweet and gentle again. 101 00:05:24.560 --> 00:05:27.759 For Tom said it took her ten minutes to unruffle 102 00:05:27.759 --> 00:05:30.680 in times when half of her feathers was up, but 103 00:05:31.120 --> 00:05:33.680 twenty when they was all up, And this was one 104 00:05:33.680 --> 00:05:36.839 of the times when they was all up. Then we 105 00:05:36.920 --> 00:05:39.040 went down, being in a sweat, to know what the 106 00:05:39.120 --> 00:05:42.199 letter said. She was setting there in a brown study 107 00:05:42.240 --> 00:05:44.720 with it laying in her lap. We sat down and 108 00:05:44.759 --> 00:05:48.680 she says they're in considerable trouble down there, and they 109 00:05:48.759 --> 00:05:51.399 think you and huck'll be a kind of diversion for 110 00:05:51.560 --> 00:05:55.439 them comfort. They say much of that they'll get out 111 00:05:55.439 --> 00:05:58.040 of you and Huck Finn. I reckon. There's a neighbor 112 00:05:58.120 --> 00:06:01.240 named Brace Dunlap that's been one to marry their benny 113 00:06:01.399 --> 00:06:04.240 for three months, and at last they told him point 114 00:06:04.240 --> 00:06:07.600 blank and once for all, he couldn't, so he has 115 00:06:07.600 --> 00:06:10.480 soured on them, and they're worried about it. I reckon 116 00:06:10.519 --> 00:06:12.680 he's somebody they think they better be on the good 117 00:06:12.800 --> 00:06:16.360 side of, for they've tried to please him by hiring 118 00:06:16.399 --> 00:06:18.959 his no account brother to help on the farm when 119 00:06:18.959 --> 00:06:22.560 they can't hardly afford it and don't want him round anyhow. 120 00:06:23.199 --> 00:06:26.480 Who are the Dunlaps. They live about a mile from 121 00:06:26.600 --> 00:06:30.199 Uncle Silas's place. Aunt Polly. All the farmers live about 122 00:06:30.199 --> 00:06:33.279 a mile apart down there, and Brace Dunlap is a 123 00:06:33.360 --> 00:06:36.480 long sight richer than any of the others, and owns 124 00:06:36.480 --> 00:06:40.000 a whole grist of niggers. He's a widower, thirty six 125 00:06:40.120 --> 00:06:43.319 years old, without any children, and is proud of his 126 00:06:43.399 --> 00:06:46.759 money and overbearing, and everybody is a little afraid of him. 127 00:06:47.279 --> 00:06:49.800 I judge he thought he could have any girl he wanted, 128 00:06:49.879 --> 00:06:52.279 just for the asking, and it must have set him 129 00:06:52.319 --> 00:06:54.800 back a good deal when he found he couldn't get Benny. 130 00:06:55.399 --> 00:06:58.680 Why Benny's only half as old as he is, and 131 00:06:58.920 --> 00:07:02.040 just as sweet and lovely he is. Well, you've seen her, 132 00:07:02.720 --> 00:07:06.360 poor old uncle Silas. Why it's pitiful him trying to 133 00:07:06.399 --> 00:07:09.680 curry favor that way, so hard pushed and poor, and 134 00:07:09.800 --> 00:07:13.839 yet hiring that useless Jubiter Dunlap to please his ornery brother. 135 00:07:14.319 --> 00:07:18.079 What a name, Jubiter? Where'd he get it? It's only 136 00:07:18.519 --> 00:07:21.480 just a nickname, I reckon. They'd forgot his real name 137 00:07:21.519 --> 00:07:24.839 long before this. He's twenty seven now and has had 138 00:07:24.879 --> 00:07:27.319 it ever since the first time he ever went in swimming. 139 00:07:27.839 --> 00:07:30.680 The school teacher's seen a round brown mole the size 140 00:07:30.680 --> 00:07:32.920 of a dime on his left leg above his knee, 141 00:07:32.959 --> 00:07:35.120 and four little bits of moles around it when he 142 00:07:35.160 --> 00:07:37.720 was naked, and he said it minded him of Jubiter 143 00:07:37.879 --> 00:07:40.680 and his moons, and the children thought it was funny, 144 00:07:40.759 --> 00:07:43.279 and so they got to calling him Jubiter. And he's 145 00:07:43.399 --> 00:07:47.680 Jubiter yet he's tall and lazy and sly and sneaky, 146 00:07:48.079 --> 00:07:51.600 and rather cowardly too, but kind of good natured and 147 00:07:51.720 --> 00:07:54.759 wears long brown hair and no beard, and hasn't got 148 00:07:54.759 --> 00:07:58.120 a cent and brace boards him for nothing and gives 149 00:07:58.199 --> 00:08:01.759 him his old clothes to wear and despises him. Jubiter 150 00:08:01.879 --> 00:08:05.959 is a twin. What's the other twin like? Just exactly 151 00:08:06.040 --> 00:08:09.920 like Jubiter, so they say, used to was anyway, but 152 00:08:10.040 --> 00:08:13.000 he ain't been seen for seven years. He got to 153 00:08:13.079 --> 00:08:15.920 Robin when he was nineteen or twenty, and they jailed him, 154 00:08:16.240 --> 00:08:19.480 but he broke jail and got away up north here Somers. 155 00:08:20.160 --> 00:08:22.720 They used to hear about him robbing and burglaring now 156 00:08:22.800 --> 00:08:25.920 and then, but that was years ago. He's dead now, 157 00:08:26.160 --> 00:08:28.920 at least that's what they say. They don't hear about 158 00:08:28.959 --> 00:08:33.639 him anymore. What was his name, Jake? There wasn't anything 159 00:08:33.679 --> 00:08:36.759 more said for a considerable while. The old lady was thinking. 160 00:08:37.159 --> 00:08:40.799 At last, she says, the thing that is mostly worrying 161 00:08:40.879 --> 00:08:44.120 your aunt Sally is the tempers that that man Jupiter 162 00:08:44.639 --> 00:08:48.720 gets your uncle into. Tom was astonished and so was I. 163 00:08:49.399 --> 00:08:54.320 Tom says, tempers, Uncle Silas Land, you must be joking. 164 00:08:54.759 --> 00:08:57.919 I didn't know he had any temper works him up 165 00:08:58.000 --> 00:09:01.399 into perfect rages. Your Aunt Sally's says, he acts as 166 00:09:01.440 --> 00:09:05.360 if he would really hit the man sometimes, Aunt Polly, 167 00:09:05.399 --> 00:09:09.360 it beats anything I ever heard of. Why he's just 168 00:09:09.519 --> 00:09:14.440 as gentle as mush? Well, she's worried anyway, says your 169 00:09:14.519 --> 00:09:17.200 uncle Silas is like a changed man on account of 170 00:09:17.240 --> 00:09:20.360 all this quarreling, And the neighbors talk about it and 171 00:09:20.480 --> 00:09:23.080 lay all the blame on your uncle, of course, because 172 00:09:23.080 --> 00:09:26.000 he's a preacher and ain't got any business to quarrel. 173 00:09:26.559 --> 00:09:29.559 Your Aunt Sally says, he hates to go into the pulpit. 174 00:09:29.600 --> 00:09:32.440 He's so ashamed, and the people have begun to cool 175 00:09:32.559 --> 00:09:35.000 toward him. And he ain't as popular now as he 176 00:09:35.120 --> 00:09:40.399 used to was. Well, ain't it strange? Why, Aunt Polly, 177 00:09:40.919 --> 00:09:43.480 he was always so good and kind and moony and 178 00:09:43.639 --> 00:09:48.000 absent minded and chuckle headed and lovable. Why he was 179 00:09:48.120 --> 00:09:51.159 just an angel? What can be the matter of him? 180 00:09:51.200 --> 00:09:56.440 Do you Reckon end of chapter one, Chapter two, Jake 181 00:09:56.639 --> 00:10:01.159 Dunlap we had powerful good luck because we got a 182 00:10:01.279 --> 00:10:04.080 chance in a stern wheeler from away north, which was 183 00:10:04.120 --> 00:10:07.000 bound for one of them by us or one horse 184 00:10:07.120 --> 00:10:10.200 rivers away down Louisiana Way. And so we could go 185 00:10:10.360 --> 00:10:12.879 all the way down the Upper Mississippi and all the 186 00:10:12.919 --> 00:10:16.120 way down the Lower Mississippi to that farm in Arkansas 187 00:10:16.480 --> 00:10:19.600 without having to change steamboats at Saint Louis not so 188 00:10:19.840 --> 00:10:22.639 very much short of a thousand miles at one pull 189 00:10:23.240 --> 00:10:26.600 a pretty lonesome boat. There weren't but few passengers, and 190 00:10:26.759 --> 00:10:30.759 all old folks that set around wide apart, dozing, and 191 00:10:30.919 --> 00:10:34.320 was very quiet. We was four days getting out of 192 00:10:34.360 --> 00:10:37.559 the Upper River because we got aground so much. But 193 00:10:37.679 --> 00:10:40.519 it weren't dull, couldn't be for boys that was traveling. 194 00:10:40.559 --> 00:10:43.679 Of course, from the very start me and Tom allowed 195 00:10:43.679 --> 00:10:46.320 that there was somebody sick in the stateroom next arn, 196 00:10:46.519 --> 00:10:49.080 because the meals was always toted in there by the 197 00:10:49.080 --> 00:10:52.279 waiters bye and bye. We asked about it, Tom did, 198 00:10:52.320 --> 00:10:54.600 and the waiters said he was a man, but he 199 00:10:54.639 --> 00:10:58.960 didn't look sick. Well, but ain't he sick? I don't know. 200 00:10:59.440 --> 00:11:02.879 Maybe he is, but appears to me he's just letting on. 201 00:11:03.679 --> 00:11:07.080 What makes you think that, because if he was sick, 202 00:11:07.120 --> 00:11:09.639 he would pull his clothes off sometime or other. Don't 203 00:11:09.639 --> 00:11:12.320 you reckon? He would? Well, this one don't. At least 204 00:11:12.559 --> 00:11:15.720 he don't ever pull off his boots anyway. The mischief 205 00:11:15.720 --> 00:11:18.720 he don't, not even when he goes to bed. No, 206 00:11:19.720 --> 00:11:22.799 it was always nuts for Tom Sawyer. A mystery was 207 00:11:23.480 --> 00:11:25.600 But you'd lay out a mystery and a pie before 208 00:11:25.639 --> 00:11:27.799 me and him, and you wouldn't have to say, take 209 00:11:27.840 --> 00:11:30.879 your choice. It was a thing that would regulate itself, 210 00:11:31.159 --> 00:11:35.120 because in my nature I always run to pie, whilst 211 00:11:35.279 --> 00:11:38.919 in his nature he has always run to mystery. People 212 00:11:38.919 --> 00:11:42.159 are made different, and it is the best way. Tom 213 00:11:42.240 --> 00:11:46.559 says to the waiter, what's the man's name, Phillips? Where'd 214 00:11:46.559 --> 00:11:50.039 he come aboard? I think he got aboard at Alexandria, 215 00:11:50.200 --> 00:11:52.879 up on the Iowa line. What do you reckon? He's 216 00:11:52.879 --> 00:11:56.120 a playing I ain't any notion. I never thought of it, 217 00:11:56.919 --> 00:11:59.919 I says to myself. Here's another one that runs to pie. 218 00:12:00.240 --> 00:12:04.159 Anything peculiar about him, the way he acts or talks, No, 219 00:12:04.840 --> 00:12:08.360 nothing except he seems so scary and keeps his doors 220 00:12:08.399 --> 00:12:11.200 locked night and day both and when you knock, he 221 00:12:11.240 --> 00:12:13.200 won't let you in till he opens the door crack 222 00:12:13.279 --> 00:12:17.519 and sees who it is. By Jimmy, it's interesting. I'd 223 00:12:17.559 --> 00:12:20.320 like to get a look at him. Say the next 224 00:12:20.360 --> 00:12:22.399 time you're going in there, don't you reckon. You could 225 00:12:22.440 --> 00:12:26.200 spread the door and no, indeed, he he's always behind it. 226 00:12:26.639 --> 00:12:30.039 He would block that game. Tom studied over it, and 227 00:12:30.039 --> 00:12:33.000 then he says, look a here, you lend me your apron. 228 00:12:33.240 --> 00:12:35.200 Let me take him his breakfast in the morning. I'll 229 00:12:35.200 --> 00:12:38.000 give you a quarter. The boy was plenty willing enough 230 00:12:38.360 --> 00:12:41.320 if the head Stewart wouldn't mind. Tom says, that's all right. 231 00:12:41.360 --> 00:12:43.480 He reckoned. He could fix it with the head Stewart, 232 00:12:43.600 --> 00:12:45.720 and he done it. He fixed it so as we 233 00:12:45.759 --> 00:12:48.840 could both go in with aprons on and toting victuals. 234 00:12:49.320 --> 00:12:51.759 He didn't sleep much. He was in such a sweat 235 00:12:51.799 --> 00:12:54.200 to get in there and find out the mystery about Phillips. 236 00:12:54.600 --> 00:12:56.799 And moreover, he'd done a lot of guessing about it 237 00:12:56.840 --> 00:12:59.679 all night, which warn't no use. For if you are 238 00:12:59.720 --> 00:13:02.320 going to find out the facts of a thing, what's 239 00:13:02.320 --> 00:13:04.559 the sense in guessing out what ain't the facts and 240 00:13:04.679 --> 00:13:08.720 wasting ammunition. I didn't lose no sleep. I wouldn't give 241 00:13:08.759 --> 00:13:11.000 a dern to know what's the matter of Phillips, I 242 00:13:11.000 --> 00:13:13.879 says to myself. Well, in the morning, we put on 243 00:13:13.960 --> 00:13:16.039 the aprons and got a couple of trays of truck 244 00:13:16.159 --> 00:13:18.919 and Tom he knocked on the door. The man opened 245 00:13:18.919 --> 00:13:20.919 at a crack, and then he let us in and 246 00:13:21.200 --> 00:13:24.440 shut it quick, pat Jackson. When we got sight of him, 247 00:13:24.799 --> 00:13:28.440 we most dropped the trays, and Tom says, why Jubiter's 248 00:13:28.480 --> 00:13:33.159 done Lap, where'd you come from? Well the man was astonished, 249 00:13:33.159 --> 00:13:35.639 of course, and first off he looked like he didn't 250 00:13:35.639 --> 00:13:39.399 know whether to be scared or glad or both or which. 251 00:13:39.720 --> 00:13:42.480 But finally he settled down to being glad, and then 252 00:13:42.519 --> 00:13:45.080 his color come back, though at first his face had 253 00:13:45.120 --> 00:13:48.080 turned pretty white. So we got to talking together while 254 00:13:48.120 --> 00:13:51.080 he had his breakfast, and he says, but I ain't 255 00:13:51.200 --> 00:13:54.879 Jubeter Dunlap. I'd just as soon tell you who I am, though, 256 00:13:55.240 --> 00:13:58.039 if you'll swear to keep mum, for I ain't no 257 00:13:58.159 --> 00:14:02.440 Phillips either. Tom said, we'll keep Mum, but there ain't 258 00:14:02.480 --> 00:14:04.559 any need to tell who you are if you ain't 259 00:14:04.720 --> 00:14:09.759 Jubiter Dunlap. Why because if you ain't him, you're t'other twin, Jake, 260 00:14:10.159 --> 00:14:14.240 you're the spitting image of Jubiter. Well, I'm Jake, but 261 00:14:14.440 --> 00:14:16.799 look here how do you come to know us? Done 262 00:14:16.879 --> 00:14:20.080 laps Tom told about the adventures we'd had down there 263 00:14:20.120 --> 00:14:23.000 at his uncle Silas's last summer. And when he see 264 00:14:23.120 --> 00:14:26.120 that there warn't anything about his folks or him either, 265 00:14:26.320 --> 00:14:29.480 for that matter, that we didn't know, he opened out 266 00:14:29.519 --> 00:14:32.960 and talked perfectly, free and candid. He never made any 267 00:14:33.000 --> 00:14:36.159 bones about his own case. Said he'd been a hard lot, 268 00:14:36.519 --> 00:14:39.039 was a hard lot yet and reckoned. He'd be a 269 00:14:39.080 --> 00:14:41.600 hard lot plumb to the end. He said, of course, 270 00:14:41.639 --> 00:14:44.600 it was a dangerous life, and he gave a kind 271 00:14:44.600 --> 00:14:47.720 of gasp and set his head like a person that's listening. 272 00:14:48.080 --> 00:14:50.440 We didn't say anything, and so it was very still 273 00:14:50.480 --> 00:14:53.000 for a second or so, and there weren't no sounds 274 00:14:53.039 --> 00:14:55.840 but the screaking of the woodwork and the chug chugging 275 00:14:55.879 --> 00:14:59.159 of the machinery down below. Then we got him comfortable again, 276 00:14:59.320 --> 00:15:02.200 telling him about his people, and how Brace's wife had 277 00:15:02.240 --> 00:15:05.320 been dead three years and Brace wanted to marry Benny 278 00:15:05.440 --> 00:15:09.000 and she shook him, and Jubiter was working for Uncle Silas, 279 00:15:09.399 --> 00:15:12.279 and him and Uncle Silas quarreling all the time. And 280 00:15:12.320 --> 00:15:16.559 then he let go and laughed. Lad. He says, it's 281 00:15:16.679 --> 00:15:19.559 like old times to hear all this tittle title and 282 00:15:19.600 --> 00:15:23.559 does me good. It's been seven years and more since 283 00:15:23.600 --> 00:15:27.720 I heard any How do they talk about me these days? Who? 284 00:15:27.879 --> 00:15:31.480 The farmers and the family. Why they don't talk about 285 00:15:31.519 --> 00:15:34.600 you at all, at least only just to mention once 286 00:15:34.639 --> 00:15:38.279 in a long time the nation, He says, surprised. Why 287 00:15:38.360 --> 00:15:42.840 is that because they think you are dead long ago? No, 288 00:15:43.600 --> 00:15:47.720 you're speaking true, Honor Bright. Now he jumped up, excited, 289 00:15:48.080 --> 00:15:51.960 Honor Bright. There ain't anybody thinks you are alive. Then 290 00:15:52.000 --> 00:15:56.720 I'm saved. I'm saved. Sure, I'll go home. They'll hide 291 00:15:56.759 --> 00:15:59.840 me and save my life. You keep, mum swear you'll 292 00:16:00.200 --> 00:16:03.759 mum swear you'll never never tell on me. Oh boys, 293 00:16:03.919 --> 00:16:06.720 be good to a poor devil it's being hunted day 294 00:16:06.720 --> 00:16:09.600 and night and doesn't show his face. I've never done 295 00:16:09.639 --> 00:16:12.279 you any harm. I'll never do you any as God 296 00:16:12.320 --> 00:16:14.840 is in the heavens. Swear you'll be good to me 297 00:16:15.120 --> 00:16:18.200 and help me save my life. We'd a swore if 298 00:16:18.240 --> 00:16:21.200 it had been a dog, and so we done it well. 299 00:16:21.720 --> 00:16:24.399 He couldn't love us enough for it or be grateful enough. 300 00:16:24.440 --> 00:16:26.960 Poor cuss. It was all he could do to keep 301 00:16:26.960 --> 00:16:29.799 from hugging us. We talked along, and he got out 302 00:16:29.799 --> 00:16:32.360 a little handbag and begun to open it and told 303 00:16:32.440 --> 00:16:35.279 us to turn our backs. We done it, and when 304 00:16:35.279 --> 00:16:37.639 he told us to turn again, he was perfectly different 305 00:16:37.639 --> 00:16:40.679 to what he was before. He had on blue goggles 306 00:16:40.960 --> 00:16:44.480 and the naturalist look in, long brown whiskers and mustache 307 00:16:44.519 --> 00:16:47.360 as you ever see. His own mother wouldn't have known him. 308 00:16:47.759 --> 00:16:50.279 He asked us if he looked like his brother Jubiter. 309 00:16:50.399 --> 00:16:54.120 Now no, Tom said, there ain't anything left that's like 310 00:16:54.200 --> 00:16:57.320 him except the long hair. All right, I'll get that 311 00:16:57.399 --> 00:17:00.120 crop close to my head before I get there, and 312 00:17:00.240 --> 00:17:02.919 him and Brace will keep my secret, and I'll live 313 00:17:03.000 --> 00:17:05.640 with them as being a stranger, and the neighbors won't 314 00:17:05.640 --> 00:17:08.400 ever guess me out. What do you think, Tom? He 315 00:17:08.519 --> 00:17:11.720 studied a while. Then he says, well, of course me 316 00:17:11.759 --> 00:17:14.200 and Hack are going to keep Mum there. But if 317 00:17:14.240 --> 00:17:16.079 you don't keep Mum yourself, there's going to be a 318 00:17:16.079 --> 00:17:18.640 little bit of a risk. It ain't much, maybe, but 319 00:17:18.720 --> 00:17:22.200 it's a little. I mean, if you talk, won't people 320 00:17:22.279 --> 00:17:25.359 notice that your voice is just like Jubiter's? And mightn't 321 00:17:25.359 --> 00:17:27.880 it make them think of the twin they reckoned was dead? 322 00:17:28.359 --> 00:17:31.599 But maybe after all was hid all this time under 323 00:17:31.640 --> 00:17:35.279 another name by George. He says, you're a sharp one. 324 00:17:35.559 --> 00:17:38.319 You're perfectly right. I've got to play deef and dumb 325 00:17:38.359 --> 00:17:41.000 when there's a neighbor around. If I had just struck 326 00:17:41.039 --> 00:17:44.279 for home and forgot that little detail. However, I wasn't 327 00:17:44.319 --> 00:17:47.359 striking for home. I was breaking for any place where 328 00:17:47.359 --> 00:17:49.680 I could get away from these fellows that are after me. 329 00:17:50.200 --> 00:17:52.200 Then I was going to put on this disguise and 330 00:17:52.359 --> 00:17:55.839 get some different clothes. And he jumped for the outside 331 00:17:55.880 --> 00:17:58.200 door and laid his ear against it and listened. Pale 332 00:17:58.240 --> 00:18:04.839 and kind of panting. He whispers, sounded like cocking a gun. Lord, 333 00:18:04.920 --> 00:18:08.039 what a life to lead. Then he sunk down in 334 00:18:08.119 --> 00:18:11.119 a chair, all limp and sick like, and wipe the 335 00:18:11.160 --> 00:18:16.079 sweat off his face. End of chapter two, Chapter three 336 00:18:16.640 --> 00:18:20.720 A Diamond Robbery. From that time out, we was with 337 00:18:20.839 --> 00:18:23.119 him most all the time, and one or t'other of 338 00:18:23.200 --> 00:18:25.759 us slept in his upper berth. He said he had 339 00:18:25.759 --> 00:18:28.279 been so lonesome, and it was such a comfort to 340 00:18:28.359 --> 00:18:30.880 him to have company and somebody to talk to in 341 00:18:30.880 --> 00:18:33.440 his troubles. We was in a sweat to find out 342 00:18:33.480 --> 00:18:35.920 what his secret was. But Tom said the best way 343 00:18:36.039 --> 00:18:39.400 was not to seem anxious, then likely he would drop 344 00:18:39.440 --> 00:18:42.640 into it himself in one of his talks. But if 345 00:18:42.640 --> 00:18:45.880 we go to asking questions, he would get suspicious and 346 00:18:45.960 --> 00:18:49.079 shet up his shell. It turned out just so. It 347 00:18:49.160 --> 00:18:51.640 warn't no trouble to see that he wanted to talk 348 00:18:51.680 --> 00:18:55.079 about it, but always along at first, he would scare 349 00:18:55.119 --> 00:18:57.400 away from it when he got on the very edge 350 00:18:57.400 --> 00:19:00.119 of it and go to talk about something else. The 351 00:19:00.119 --> 00:19:02.960 way it come about was this. He got to asking 352 00:19:03.079 --> 00:19:06.599 us kind of indifferent like about the passengers down on deck. 353 00:19:06.920 --> 00:19:10.200 We told him about them, but he weren't satisfied we 354 00:19:10.200 --> 00:19:13.599 weren't particular enough. He told us to describe them better. 355 00:19:14.039 --> 00:19:17.160 Tom done it at last. When Tom was describing one 356 00:19:17.160 --> 00:19:20.000 of the roughest and raggedest ones, he gave a shiver 357 00:19:20.079 --> 00:19:24.440 and a gasp and says, oh, lordy, that's one of them. 358 00:19:24.759 --> 00:19:28.119 They're aboard. Sure, I just knowed it. I sort of 359 00:19:28.160 --> 00:19:31.640 hoped i'd got away, but I never believed it. Go 360 00:19:31.759 --> 00:19:37.039 on presently, when Tom was describing another mangy rough deck passenger, 361 00:19:37.400 --> 00:19:40.759 he gave that shiver again and says, that's him. That's 362 00:19:40.799 --> 00:19:44.279 the other one. If it'll only come a good black 363 00:19:44.319 --> 00:19:47.359 stormy night, and I could get ashore. You see, they've 364 00:19:47.400 --> 00:19:50.000 got spies on me. They've got a right to come 365 00:19:50.079 --> 00:19:53.039 up and buy drinks at the bar yonder forward, and 366 00:19:53.119 --> 00:19:55.559 they take that chance to bribe somebody to keep watch 367 00:19:55.640 --> 00:19:59.359 on me. Porter or Boots or somebody. If I was 368 00:19:59.400 --> 00:20:02.200 to slip a shor or without anybody seeing me, they would 369 00:20:02.319 --> 00:20:05.759 know it inside of an hour. So then he got 370 00:20:05.799 --> 00:20:08.480 to wandering along, and pretty soon sure enough he was 371 00:20:08.519 --> 00:20:11.960 telling he was poking along through his ups and downs, 372 00:20:11.960 --> 00:20:14.640 and when he come to that place, he went right along. 373 00:20:14.720 --> 00:20:19.000 He says it was a confidence game. We played it 374 00:20:19.079 --> 00:20:22.519 on a julery shop in Saint Louis. What we was 375 00:20:22.559 --> 00:20:25.240 after was a couple of noble big diamonds, as big 376 00:20:25.279 --> 00:20:28.559 as hazel nuts, which everybody was running to see. We 377 00:20:28.599 --> 00:20:31.279 was dressed up fine, and we played it on them 378 00:20:31.319 --> 00:20:34.400 in broad daylight. We ordered the diamonds sent to the 379 00:20:34.400 --> 00:20:36.480 hotel for us to see if we wanted to buy, 380 00:20:37.000 --> 00:20:40.119 and when we was examining them, we had paste counterfeits 381 00:20:40.160 --> 00:20:42.720 all ready. And then was the things that went back 382 00:20:42.759 --> 00:20:45.000 to the shop when we said the water wasn't quite 383 00:20:45.119 --> 00:20:50.119 fine enough for twelve thousand dollars twelve thousand dollars, Tom says, 384 00:20:50.519 --> 00:20:53.119 was they really worth all that money? Do you reckon 385 00:20:53.680 --> 00:20:56.920 every cent of it? And you fellows got away with 386 00:20:57.000 --> 00:21:00.319 them as easy as nothing. I don't reckon the juelery 387 00:21:00.400 --> 00:21:03.319 people know they've been robbed yet. But it wouldn't be 388 00:21:03.359 --> 00:21:05.680 good sense to stay round Saint Louis course, So we 389 00:21:05.839 --> 00:21:10.039 considered where we'd go. One was for going one way, 390 00:21:10.440 --> 00:21:14.400 one another. So we throwed up heads or tails, and 391 00:21:14.440 --> 00:21:17.480 the Upper Mississippi won. We'd done up the diamonds in 392 00:21:17.559 --> 00:21:19.920 the paper and put our names on it, and put 393 00:21:19.920 --> 00:21:22.200 it in the keep of the hotel clerk and told 394 00:21:22.279 --> 00:21:24.559 him not to ever let either of us have it 395 00:21:24.599 --> 00:21:27.440 again without the others was on hand to see it done. 396 00:21:27.960 --> 00:21:31.359 Then we went downtown, each by his own self, because 397 00:21:31.400 --> 00:21:34.160 I reckon maybe we all had the same notion. I 398 00:21:34.200 --> 00:21:36.599 don't know for certain, but I reckon maybe we had 399 00:21:37.119 --> 00:21:41.799 what notion Tom says, to rob the others? What one 400 00:21:41.960 --> 00:21:44.880 take everything after all of you had helped to get it. 401 00:21:45.319 --> 00:21:48.759 Certainly it disgusted Tom Sawyer, and he said it was 402 00:21:48.799 --> 00:21:52.240 the orneriest, low downest thing he ever heard of. But 403 00:21:52.359 --> 00:21:55.599 Jake Dunlap said it warn't unusual in the profession said, 404 00:21:55.839 --> 00:21:58.039 when a person was in that line of business, he'd 405 00:21:58.039 --> 00:22:00.799 got to look out for his own interest. There warn't 406 00:22:00.880 --> 00:22:02.960 nobody else going to do it for him. And then 407 00:22:03.000 --> 00:22:06.079 he went on, he says, you see, the trouble was 408 00:22:06.519 --> 00:22:09.599 you couldn't divide up two diamonds amongst three if there'd 409 00:22:09.599 --> 00:22:12.839 been three. But never mind about that there warn't three. 410 00:22:13.319 --> 00:22:16.279 I loafed along the back street, studying and studying, and 411 00:22:16.359 --> 00:22:19.279 I says to myself, I'll hog them di'monds the first 412 00:22:19.359 --> 00:22:21.759 chance I get, and I'll have a disguise all ready, 413 00:22:21.920 --> 00:22:23.960 and i'll give the boys the slip, and when I'm 414 00:22:24.000 --> 00:22:27.319 safe away, i'll put it on and then let them 415 00:22:27.359 --> 00:22:29.920 find me if they can. So I got the false 416 00:22:29.920 --> 00:22:33.319 whiskers and the goggles and this countryfied suit of clothes 417 00:22:33.680 --> 00:22:36.440 and fetched them along back in a handbag. And when 418 00:22:36.440 --> 00:22:38.720 I was passing a shop where they sell all sorts 419 00:22:38.759 --> 00:22:40.319 of things, I got a glimpse of one of my 420 00:22:40.480 --> 00:22:44.279 pals through the window. It was Bud Dixon. I was glad, 421 00:22:44.359 --> 00:22:47.880 you bet, I says to myself, I'll see what he buys. 422 00:22:48.440 --> 00:22:51.119 So I kept shady and watched. Now what do you reckon? 423 00:22:51.160 --> 00:22:57.759 It was? He bought Whiskers said, I no goggles. No, oh, 424 00:22:58.039 --> 00:23:00.720 keep still, huck, Finn, can't you You're only just hendering 425 00:23:00.759 --> 00:23:04.519 all you can. What was it he bought, Jake, You'd 426 00:23:04.599 --> 00:23:07.079 never guess it in the world. It was only just 427 00:23:07.119 --> 00:23:10.680 a screwdriver, just a wee little bit of a screwdriver. Well, 428 00:23:10.759 --> 00:23:13.759 I declare, but what do he want with that? That's 429 00:23:13.759 --> 00:23:17.480 what I thought. It was curious? It clean stumped me. 430 00:23:18.079 --> 00:23:21.680 I says to myself, what can he want with that thing? Well, 431 00:23:22.079 --> 00:23:24.319 when he come out, I stood back out of sight, 432 00:23:24.680 --> 00:23:27.240 and then tracked him to a second hand slop shop 433 00:23:27.519 --> 00:23:30.079 and see him buy a red flannel shirt and some 434 00:23:30.240 --> 00:23:33.160 old ragged clothes, just the ones he's got on now, 435 00:23:33.440 --> 00:23:36.319 as you've described. Then I went down to the wharf 436 00:23:36.359 --> 00:23:38.720 and hid my things aboard the up river boat that 437 00:23:38.759 --> 00:23:41.400 we had picked out, and then started back and had 438 00:23:41.440 --> 00:23:44.240 another streak of luck. I seen our other pal lay 439 00:23:44.400 --> 00:23:47.640 in his stock of old, rusty second handers. We got 440 00:23:47.640 --> 00:23:50.640 the diamonds and went aboard the boat. But now we 441 00:23:50.680 --> 00:23:52.880 was up a stump, for we couldn't go to bed. 442 00:23:53.240 --> 00:23:56.160 We had to set up and watch one another. Pity. 443 00:23:56.240 --> 00:23:58.400 That was pity to put that kind of a strain 444 00:23:58.480 --> 00:24:01.079 on us, because there was bad blood between us from 445 00:24:01.119 --> 00:24:03.640 a couple of weeks back, and we was only friends 446 00:24:03.640 --> 00:24:06.920 in the way of business, bad anyway, seeing there was 447 00:24:06.960 --> 00:24:10.640 only two diamonds TwixT three men. First we had supper, 448 00:24:10.920 --> 00:24:13.799 and then tramped up and down the deck together, smoking 449 00:24:13.920 --> 00:24:16.960 till most midnight. Then we went and sat down in 450 00:24:17.039 --> 00:24:19.759 my stateroom and locked the doors, and looked in the 451 00:24:19.799 --> 00:24:21.839 piece of paper to see if the diamonds was all right. 452 00:24:22.279 --> 00:24:24.960 Then laid it on the lower berth, right in full sight. 453 00:24:25.480 --> 00:24:28.519 And there we set and set, and by and by 454 00:24:28.599 --> 00:24:31.839 it got to be dreadful, hard to keep awake. At last, 455 00:24:31.880 --> 00:24:35.039 Bud Dixon he dropped off as soon as he was snoring, 456 00:24:35.039 --> 00:24:37.720 a good regular gait that was likely to last, and 457 00:24:37.759 --> 00:24:40.799 had his chin on his breast and looked permanent. Hal 458 00:24:40.839 --> 00:24:44.680 Clayton nodded towards the diamonds and then towards the outside door, 459 00:24:45.160 --> 00:24:48.480 and I understood. I reached and got the paper, and 460 00:24:48.519 --> 00:24:52.400 then we stood up and waited perfectly still, but never stirred. 461 00:24:52.960 --> 00:24:55.720 I turned the key of the outside door very soft 462 00:24:55.759 --> 00:24:58.920 and slow, then turned the knob the same way, and 463 00:24:59.000 --> 00:25:02.279 we went tiptoe out on to the guard and shut 464 00:25:02.319 --> 00:25:06.559 the door, very soft and gentle. There warn't nobody stirring anywhere, 465 00:25:06.680 --> 00:25:09.880 and the boat was slipping along, swift and steady through 466 00:25:09.920 --> 00:25:13.119 the big water and the smoky moonlight. We never said 467 00:25:13.119 --> 00:25:15.680 a word, but went straight up onto the hurricane deck 468 00:25:15.720 --> 00:25:18.440 and plumb back aft and set down on the end 469 00:25:18.480 --> 00:25:21.160 of the skylight. Both of us knowed what that meant, 470 00:25:21.279 --> 00:25:24.400 without having to explain to one another. Bud Dixon would 471 00:25:24.480 --> 00:25:27.240 wake up and miss the swag and would come straight 472 00:25:27.279 --> 00:25:29.880 for us, for he ain't afeard of anything or anybody. 473 00:25:29.880 --> 00:25:32.640 That man ain't. He would come and we would heave 474 00:25:32.759 --> 00:25:36.279 him overboard or get killed trying. It made me shiver, 475 00:25:36.519 --> 00:25:39.319 because I ain't as brave as some people. But if 476 00:25:39.359 --> 00:25:42.319 I showed the white feather, well, I knowed better than 477 00:25:42.440 --> 00:25:44.839 do that. I kind of hoped the boat would land 478 00:25:44.880 --> 00:25:47.279 somers and we could skip ashore and not have to 479 00:25:47.359 --> 00:25:49.759 run the risk of this row. I was so scared 480 00:25:49.759 --> 00:25:52.480 of Bud Dixon, but she was an upper river tub 481 00:25:52.640 --> 00:25:55.839 and there warn't no real chance of that. Well, the 482 00:25:55.920 --> 00:25:58.480 time strung along and along, and that fellow never come. 483 00:25:58.960 --> 00:26:02.079 Why it strung along till dawn begun to break, and 484 00:26:02.119 --> 00:26:05.359 still he never come. Thunder I says, what do you 485 00:26:05.440 --> 00:26:09.839 make out of this? Ain't it suspicious? Land Hell says, 486 00:26:10.680 --> 00:26:13.720 do you reckon? He's playing us? Open the paper? I 487 00:26:13.839 --> 00:26:16.079 done it, and by gracious, there warn't anything in it 488 00:26:16.119 --> 00:26:18.920 but a couple of little pieces of loaf sugar. That's 489 00:26:18.960 --> 00:26:21.319 the reason he could set there and snooze all night, 490 00:26:21.440 --> 00:26:25.400 so comfortable. Smart well, I reckon he had had them 491 00:26:25.440 --> 00:26:28.160 two papers, all fixed and ready, and he had put 492 00:26:28.200 --> 00:26:31.119 one of them in place of t'other, right under our noses. 493 00:26:31.720 --> 00:26:34.519 We felt pretty cheap. But the thing to do straight 494 00:26:34.559 --> 00:26:36.279 off was to make a plan, and we done it. 495 00:26:36.839 --> 00:26:39.519 We would do up the paper again, just as it was, 496 00:26:39.720 --> 00:26:42.799 and slip in very elaborate and soft, and lay it 497 00:26:42.839 --> 00:26:45.359 on the bunk again, and let on we didn't know 498 00:26:45.440 --> 00:26:48.599 about any trick, and hadn't any idea. He was laughing 499 00:26:48.640 --> 00:26:51.599 at us behind them bogus snores of his'n and we 500 00:26:51.640 --> 00:26:54.880 would stick by him, and the first night we was ashore, 501 00:26:55.079 --> 00:26:57.279 we would get him drunk and search him and get 502 00:26:57.319 --> 00:27:00.279 the diamonds and do for him too, if it weren't 503 00:27:00.279 --> 00:27:02.960 too risky, if we got the swag, we'd got to 504 00:27:03.039 --> 00:27:05.000 do for him, or he would hunt us down and 505 00:27:05.119 --> 00:27:08.319 do for us, sure, but I didn't have no real hope. 506 00:27:08.720 --> 00:27:11.279 I knowed we could get him drunk. He was always 507 00:27:11.319 --> 00:27:14.000 ready for that. But what's the good of it? You 508 00:27:14.079 --> 00:27:17.599 might search him a year and never fight. Well, right there, 509 00:27:17.720 --> 00:27:20.799 I catched my breath and broke off my thought for 510 00:27:20.880 --> 00:27:23.200 an idea went ripping through my head that tore my 511 00:27:23.279 --> 00:27:26.960 brains to rags and land. But I felt gay and good. 512 00:27:27.559 --> 00:27:30.279 You see, I had had my boots off to unswell 513 00:27:30.359 --> 00:27:33.000 my feet, and just then I took up one of 514 00:27:33.039 --> 00:27:35.519 them to put it on, and I catched a glimpse 515 00:27:35.559 --> 00:27:38.319 of the heel bottom, and it just took my breath away. 516 00:27:38.559 --> 00:27:42.920 You remember about that puzzlesome little screwdriver, You bet I do, 517 00:27:43.160 --> 00:27:47.440 says Tom, all excited. Well, when I catched that glimpse 518 00:27:47.480 --> 00:27:50.359 of that boot heel, the idea that went smashing through 519 00:27:50.400 --> 00:27:53.559 my head was I know where he'd hid the di'monds. 520 00:27:54.119 --> 00:27:57.079 You look at this boot heel. Now, see it's bottom 521 00:27:57.160 --> 00:27:59.799 with a steel plate, and the plate is fastened on 522 00:28:00.000 --> 00:28:02.920 with little screws. Now, there wasn't a screw about that 523 00:28:03.039 --> 00:28:06.359 feller anywhere but in his boot heels. So if he 524 00:28:06.480 --> 00:28:10.799 needed a screwdriver, I reckoned. I knowed why huck ain't 525 00:28:10.799 --> 00:28:14.880 it bully, says Tom. Well, I got my boots on 526 00:28:15.440 --> 00:28:17.920 and we went down and slipped in and laid the 527 00:28:17.920 --> 00:28:20.720 paper of sugar on the berth, and sat down soft 528 00:28:20.759 --> 00:28:23.480 and sheepish, and went to listening to Bud Dixon's snore. 529 00:28:24.119 --> 00:28:27.480 Hal Clayton dropped off pretty soon, but I didn't. I 530 00:28:27.640 --> 00:28:30.359 wasn't ever so wide awake in my life. I was 531 00:28:30.440 --> 00:28:33.000 spying out from under the shade of my hat brim, 532 00:28:33.200 --> 00:28:36.559 searching the floor for leather. It took me a long time, 533 00:28:36.599 --> 00:28:38.799 and I begun to think maybe my guess was wrong, 534 00:28:38.920 --> 00:28:42.000 But at last I struck it. It laid over by 535 00:28:42.039 --> 00:28:44.759 the bulkhead and was nearly the color of the carpet. 536 00:28:45.200 --> 00:28:47.799 It was a little round plug, about as thick as 537 00:28:47.839 --> 00:28:50.319 the end of your little finger. And I says to myself, 538 00:28:50.559 --> 00:28:53.559 there's a diamond in the nest you've come from. Before 539 00:28:53.599 --> 00:28:56.400 long I spied out the Plug's mate. Think of the 540 00:28:56.480 --> 00:29:00.400 smartness and coolness of that blatherskite. He put up that 541 00:29:00.519 --> 00:29:02.799 scheme on us and reasoned out what we would do, 542 00:29:02.920 --> 00:29:05.839 And we went ahead and done it perfectly exact, like 543 00:29:05.880 --> 00:29:08.880 a couple of pudd'n heads. He sat there and took 544 00:29:08.880 --> 00:29:11.640 his own time to unscrew his heel plates and cut 545 00:29:11.680 --> 00:29:15.160 out his plugs and stick in the diamonds and screw 546 00:29:15.200 --> 00:29:18.039 on his plates again. He lowed, we would steal the 547 00:29:18.079 --> 00:29:20.279 bogus swag and wait all night for him to come 548 00:29:20.359 --> 00:29:23.119 up and get drowned and buy George. It's just what 549 00:29:23.240 --> 00:29:26.400 we'd done. I think it was powerful, smart. You bet 550 00:29:26.440 --> 00:29:29.640 your life it was, says Tom, just full of admiration. 551 00:29:30.839 --> 00:29:36.759 End of Chapter three. Chapter four The three sleepers, well, 552 00:29:37.279 --> 00:29:40.279 all day we went through the humbug of watching one another, 553 00:29:40.599 --> 00:29:42.880 and it was pretty sickly business for two of us, 554 00:29:42.920 --> 00:29:46.480 and hard to act out. I can tell you about night. 555 00:29:46.599 --> 00:29:49.440 We landed at one of them little Missouri towns, high 556 00:29:49.519 --> 00:29:53.160 up toward Iowa, and had supper at the tavern, and 557 00:29:53.240 --> 00:29:55.440 got a room upstairs with a cot and a double 558 00:29:55.519 --> 00:29:58.039 bed in it. But I dumped my bag under a 559 00:29:58.119 --> 00:30:00.920 deal table in the dark hall while we was moving 560 00:30:00.960 --> 00:30:04.319 along it to bed, single file, me last, and the 561 00:30:04.400 --> 00:30:07.599 landlord in lead. With a tallow candle. We had up 562 00:30:07.599 --> 00:30:10.079 a lot of whiskey and went to playing high low 563 00:30:10.200 --> 00:30:12.799 jack for dimes, and as soon as the whisky begun 564 00:30:12.880 --> 00:30:15.680 to take hold of bud, we stopped drinking, but we 565 00:30:15.759 --> 00:30:18.799 didn't let him stop. We loaded him till he fell 566 00:30:18.799 --> 00:30:21.880 out of his chair and laid there snoring. We was 567 00:30:21.960 --> 00:30:25.000 ready for business now. I said, we'd better pull our 568 00:30:25.039 --> 00:30:27.920 boots off and his'n too, and not make any noise. 569 00:30:28.279 --> 00:30:30.480 Then we could pull him and haul him round and 570 00:30:30.640 --> 00:30:33.720 ransack him without any trouble. So we done it. I 571 00:30:33.799 --> 00:30:37.200 set my boots and buds side by side where they'd 572 00:30:37.200 --> 00:30:40.160 be handy. Then we stripped him and searched his seams 573 00:30:40.160 --> 00:30:42.720 and his pockets and his socks and inside of his 574 00:30:42.799 --> 00:30:46.920 boots and everything, and searched his bundle. Never found any diamonds. 575 00:30:47.319 --> 00:30:49.839 We found a screwdriver, and Hal says, oh, what do 576 00:30:49.920 --> 00:30:52.880 you reckon? He wanted with that? I said I didn't know, 577 00:30:53.480 --> 00:30:56.319 but when he wasn't looking, I hooked it. At last. 578 00:30:56.359 --> 00:30:59.440 Hal he looked beat and discouraged and said we'd got 579 00:30:59.440 --> 00:31:02.039 to give it up. That was what I was waiting for. 580 00:31:02.519 --> 00:31:06.400 I says, there's one place we hain't searched. What place 581 00:31:06.480 --> 00:31:10.319 is that? He says, his stomach? By gracious, I never 582 00:31:10.400 --> 00:31:13.160 thought of that. Now we're on the home stretch to 583 00:31:13.279 --> 00:31:18.079 a dead moral certainty. How'll we manage well? I says, 584 00:31:18.559 --> 00:31:21.079 just stay by him till I turn out and hunt 585 00:31:21.160 --> 00:31:23.519 up a drug store, and I reckon, I'll fetch something 586 00:31:23.559 --> 00:31:26.160 that'll make them di'monds tired of the company their keeping. 587 00:31:26.799 --> 00:31:29.440 He said that's the ticket, and with him looking straight 588 00:31:29.480 --> 00:31:32.240 at me, I slid myself into buds boots instead of 589 00:31:32.240 --> 00:31:35.000 my own, and he never noticed. They was just a 590 00:31:35.119 --> 00:31:38.160 shade large for me, but that was considerable better than 591 00:31:38.279 --> 00:31:40.920 being too small. I got my bag as I went 592 00:31:40.960 --> 00:31:43.720 a groping through the hall, and in about a minute 593 00:31:43.839 --> 00:31:46.319 I was out the back way and stretching up the 594 00:31:46.400 --> 00:31:49.599 river road at a five mile gait, and not feeling 595 00:31:49.640 --> 00:31:52.920 so very bad. Neither walking on di'monds don't have no 596 00:31:53.119 --> 00:31:56.359 such effect. When I had gone fifteen minutes, I says 597 00:31:56.400 --> 00:32:00.000 to myself, there's more'n a mile behind me, and everything quiet. 598 00:32:00.359 --> 00:32:03.400 Another five minutes and I says there's considerable more land 599 00:32:03.440 --> 00:32:06.279 behind me now, and there's a man back there that's 600 00:32:06.319 --> 00:32:09.480 begun to wonder what's the trouble. Another five and I 601 00:32:09.559 --> 00:32:13.759 says to myself, he's getting real uneasy. He's walking the floor. 602 00:32:13.839 --> 00:32:17.240 Now Another five and I says to myself there's two 603 00:32:17.319 --> 00:32:20.559 miles and a half behind me, and he's awful uneasy, 604 00:32:20.960 --> 00:32:24.079 beginning to cuss. I reckon pretty soon, I says to myself. 605 00:32:24.119 --> 00:32:27.880 Forty minutes gone, he knows there's somethin up. Fifty minutes 606 00:32:28.119 --> 00:32:31.000 the truth's busting on him. Now he is reckoning. I 607 00:32:31.079 --> 00:32:33.880 found the diamonds whilst we was searching, and shoved them 608 00:32:33.920 --> 00:32:36.720 in my pocket and never let on. Yes, and he's 609 00:32:36.759 --> 00:32:39.119 starting out to hunt for me. He'll hunt for new 610 00:32:39.160 --> 00:32:41.799 tracks in the dust, and they'll as likely send him down. 611 00:32:41.839 --> 00:32:44.119 The river is up. Just then I see a man 612 00:32:44.160 --> 00:32:46.880 coming down on a mule, and before I thought, I 613 00:32:47.000 --> 00:32:50.440 jumped into the bush. It was stupid. When he got abreast, 614 00:32:50.480 --> 00:32:52.759 he stopped and waited a little for me to come out, 615 00:32:52.880 --> 00:32:55.599 and then he rode on again. But I didn't feel 616 00:32:55.599 --> 00:32:58.519 gay any more, I says to myself. I've watched my 617 00:32:58.680 --> 00:33:01.440 chances by that I shall surely have if he meets 618 00:33:01.519 --> 00:33:04.759 up with hal Clayton. Well, about three in the morning, 619 00:33:04.839 --> 00:33:08.960 I fetched Alexandria and see this stern wheeler laying there, 620 00:33:09.240 --> 00:33:12.599 and was very glad because I felt perfectly safe. Now 621 00:33:12.680 --> 00:33:15.960 you know, it was just daybreak. I went aboard and 622 00:33:16.079 --> 00:33:18.920 got this stateroom and put on these clothes and went 623 00:33:19.000 --> 00:33:21.480 up in the pilot house to watch, though I didn't 624 00:33:21.519 --> 00:33:24.000 reckon there was any need of it. I sat there 625 00:33:24.079 --> 00:33:26.759 and played with my diamonds and waited and waited for 626 00:33:26.799 --> 00:33:29.960 the boat to start. But she didn't. You see, they 627 00:33:30.039 --> 00:33:33.319 was mending her machinery, but I didn't know anything about it, 628 00:33:33.440 --> 00:33:37.160 not being very much used to steamboats. Well, to cut 629 00:33:37.160 --> 00:33:40.359 the tail short. We never left there till plumb noon, 630 00:33:40.799 --> 00:33:43.279 and long before that, I was hid in this stateroom 631 00:33:43.440 --> 00:33:47.079 for before breakfast. I see a man coming away off 632 00:33:47.200 --> 00:33:49.799 that had a gate like hal Clayton's, and it made 633 00:33:49.799 --> 00:33:52.680 me just sick, I says to myself. If he finds 634 00:33:52.720 --> 00:33:55.160 out I'm aboard this boat, he's got me like a 635 00:33:55.279 --> 00:33:57.799 rat in a trap. All he's got to do is 636 00:33:57.839 --> 00:34:01.240 to have me watched and wait till I slip ashore, 637 00:34:01.599 --> 00:34:04.920 thinking he is a thousand miles away. Then slip after 638 00:34:05.000 --> 00:34:07.519 me and dog me to a good place and make 639 00:34:07.599 --> 00:34:10.679 me give up the di'monds, and then he'll, oh, I 640 00:34:10.760 --> 00:34:15.000 know what he'll do. Ain't it awful? Awful? And now 641 00:34:15.039 --> 00:34:19.320 to think the other ones aboard too, Oh, ain't it hard? Luck? Boys? 642 00:34:19.400 --> 00:34:24.000 Ain't it hard? But you'll help save me, won't you? Oh? Boys? 643 00:34:24.039 --> 00:34:26.559 Be good to a poor devil that's being hunted to death, 644 00:34:26.599 --> 00:34:29.519 and save me. I'll worship the very ground you walk on. 645 00:34:30.639 --> 00:34:33.519 We turned in and soothed him down and told him 646 00:34:33.719 --> 00:34:35.880 we would plan for him and help him, and he 647 00:34:35.960 --> 00:34:38.559 needn't be so feared, And so by and by he 648 00:34:38.639 --> 00:34:41.559 got to feeling kind of comfortable again, and unscrewed his 649 00:34:41.639 --> 00:34:44.320 heel plates and held up his diamonds this way and that, 650 00:34:44.840 --> 00:34:48.000 admiring them and loving them. And when the light struck 651 00:34:48.000 --> 00:34:51.679 into them, they was beautiful. Sure why they seemed to 652 00:34:51.760 --> 00:34:55.079 kind of bust and snap fire out all around, but 653 00:34:55.159 --> 00:34:57.360 all the same, I judged he was a fool. If 654 00:34:57.400 --> 00:34:59.719 I had been him, I would have handed the diamonds 655 00:34:59.760 --> 00:35:01.800 to the pals and got them to go ashore and 656 00:35:01.960 --> 00:35:05.480 leave me alone. But he was made different. He said 657 00:35:05.519 --> 00:35:07.760 it was a whole fortune, and he couldn't bear the 658 00:35:07.840 --> 00:35:11.599 IDEA Twice we stopped to fix the machinery and lay 659 00:35:11.639 --> 00:35:14.440 it a good while once in the night, but it 660 00:35:14.519 --> 00:35:17.000 wasn't dark enough, and he was a feared to skip. 661 00:35:17.400 --> 00:35:19.440 But the third time we had to fix it there 662 00:35:19.480 --> 00:35:21.880 was a better chance. We laid up at a country 663 00:35:21.920 --> 00:35:25.360 woodyard about forty mile above Uncle Silas's place a little 664 00:35:25.400 --> 00:35:28.000 after one at night, and it was thickening up and 665 00:35:28.079 --> 00:35:30.800 going to storm, so Jake he laid for a chance 666 00:35:30.840 --> 00:35:33.880 to slide. We began to take in wood. Pretty soon 667 00:35:34.079 --> 00:35:37.239 the rain come a drenching down and the wind blowed hard. 668 00:35:37.800 --> 00:35:41.159 Of course, every boat hand fixed a gunnysack and put 669 00:35:41.199 --> 00:35:43.159 it on like a bonnet, the way they do when 670 00:35:43.199 --> 00:35:45.639 they are toting wood, and we got one for Jake, 671 00:35:45.760 --> 00:35:48.320 and he slipped down aft with his hand bag and 672 00:35:48.480 --> 00:35:51.719 come tramping forward just like the rest, and walked ashore 673 00:35:51.760 --> 00:35:54.119 with them. And when we see him pass out of 674 00:35:54.159 --> 00:35:56.639 the light of the torch basket and get swallowed up 675 00:35:56.639 --> 00:35:59.320 in the dark, we got our breath again and just 676 00:35:59.400 --> 00:36:02.320 felt great, full and splendid. But it wasn't for long. 677 00:36:02.920 --> 00:36:05.920 Somebody told I reckon, for in about eight or ten 678 00:36:06.000 --> 00:36:08.920 minutes them two pals come tearing forward as tight as 679 00:36:08.920 --> 00:36:11.800 they could jump, and darted ashore and was gone. We 680 00:36:11.840 --> 00:36:14.480 waited plumb till dawn for them to come back, and 681 00:36:14.599 --> 00:36:17.880 kept hoping they would, but they never did. We was awful, 682 00:36:17.960 --> 00:36:21.119 sorry and low spirited. All the hope we had was 683 00:36:21.119 --> 00:36:23.519 that Jake had got such a start that they couldn't 684 00:36:23.519 --> 00:36:25.599 get on his track and he would get to his 685 00:36:25.679 --> 00:36:28.639 brothers and hide there and be safe. He was going 686 00:36:28.719 --> 00:36:30.639 to take the river road and told us to find 687 00:36:30.639 --> 00:36:33.199 out if Brace and Jubiter was to home and no 688 00:36:33.360 --> 00:36:36.920 strangers there, and then slip out about sundown and tell him. 689 00:36:37.119 --> 00:36:39.119 Said he would wait for us in a little bunch 690 00:36:39.119 --> 00:36:43.159 of sycamores right back of Tom's uncle Silas's tobackerfield on 691 00:36:43.199 --> 00:36:46.719 the river road, a lonesome place. We sat and talked 692 00:36:46.760 --> 00:36:49.719 a long time about his chances, and Tom said he 693 00:36:49.880 --> 00:36:52.199 was all right if the pals struck up the river 694 00:36:52.280 --> 00:36:55.719 instead of down, but it wasn't likely because maybe they 695 00:36:55.800 --> 00:36:58.440 knowed where he was from. More likely they would go 696 00:36:58.559 --> 00:37:02.400 right and dog him all day, him not suspecting, and 697 00:37:02.519 --> 00:37:05.000 kill him when it come duck and take the boots. 698 00:37:05.440 --> 00:37:11.159 So we was pretty sorrowful. End of Chapter four, Chapter five, 699 00:37:11.639 --> 00:37:15.360 A Tragedy in the Woods. We didn't get done tinkering 700 00:37:15.400 --> 00:37:18.280 the machinery till away late in the afternoon, and so 701 00:37:18.360 --> 00:37:20.679 it was so close to sundown when we got home 702 00:37:20.920 --> 00:37:23.320 that we never stopped on our road, but made a 703 00:37:23.360 --> 00:37:25.440 break for the sycamores as tight as we could go 704 00:37:25.639 --> 00:37:28.239 to tell Jake what the delay was and have him 705 00:37:28.280 --> 00:37:30.920 wait till we could go to Braces and find out 706 00:37:30.920 --> 00:37:33.960 how things was there. It was getting pretty dim by 707 00:37:33.960 --> 00:37:36.440 the time we turned the corner of the woods, sweating 708 00:37:36.519 --> 00:37:39.760 and panting with that long run, and see the sycamores 709 00:37:39.760 --> 00:37:42.480 thirty yards ahead of us. And just then we see 710 00:37:42.519 --> 00:37:44.840 a couple of men run into the bunch and heard 711 00:37:44.840 --> 00:37:48.719 two or three terrible screams for help. Poor Jake is killed, sure, 712 00:37:48.800 --> 00:37:52.159 we says. We was scared through and through and broke 713 00:37:52.199 --> 00:37:55.119 for the tobacco field and hid there, trembling so our 714 00:37:55.159 --> 00:37:58.480 clothes would hardly stay on. And just as we skipped 715 00:37:58.480 --> 00:38:01.079 in there, a couple of men went tearing by, and 716 00:38:01.239 --> 00:38:03.480 into the bunch they went, and in a second out 717 00:38:03.559 --> 00:38:06.440 jumps four men and took out up the road as 718 00:38:06.480 --> 00:38:09.800 tight as they could go, too, chasing two. We laid down, 719 00:38:10.000 --> 00:38:13.280 kind of weak and sick and listened for more sounds, 720 00:38:13.519 --> 00:38:16.039 but didn't hear none for a good while. But just 721 00:38:16.159 --> 00:38:19.320 our hearts, we was thinking about that awful thing laying 722 00:38:19.480 --> 00:38:22.119 yonder in the sycamores, and it seemed like being that 723 00:38:22.280 --> 00:38:25.239 close to a ghost, and it give me the cold shudders. 724 00:38:25.840 --> 00:38:29.480 The moon comes swellin up out of the ground, now powerful, 725 00:38:29.519 --> 00:38:32.719 big an round and bright behind a comb of trees, 726 00:38:33.199 --> 00:38:36.159 like a face looking through prison bars, and the black 727 00:38:36.239 --> 00:38:39.719 shatters an white places begun to creep around, and it 728 00:38:39.800 --> 00:38:43.599 was miserable, quiet and still, a night breezy and a 729 00:38:43.719 --> 00:38:48.559 graveyardy and scary. All of a sudden, Tom whispers, Look 730 00:38:49.000 --> 00:38:52.800 what's that? Don't, I says, don't take a person by 731 00:38:52.840 --> 00:38:55.920 surprise that way. I'm most ready to die anyway without 732 00:38:55.960 --> 00:38:58.800 you doing that. Look. I tell you it's something coming 733 00:38:58.840 --> 00:39:04.280 out of the sycamores. Don't, Tom, it's terrible tall. Oh lordy, lordy, 734 00:39:04.360 --> 00:39:07.800 let's keep still. It's comin this way. He was so 735 00:39:07.960 --> 00:39:11.039 excited he could hardly get breath enough to whisper. I 736 00:39:11.159 --> 00:39:14.159 had to look. I couldn't help it. So now we 737 00:39:14.199 --> 00:39:16.280 was both on our knees with our chins on a 738 00:39:16.360 --> 00:39:20.480 fence rail and gazing yes, and gasping too. It was 739 00:39:20.559 --> 00:39:23.559 comin down the road, coming in the shatter of the trees, 740 00:39:23.880 --> 00:39:26.039 and you couldn't see it good, not till it was 741 00:39:26.119 --> 00:39:28.800 pretty close to us. Then it stepped into a bright 742 00:39:28.960 --> 00:39:32.079 splotch of moonlight, and we sunk right down in our tracks. 743 00:39:32.559 --> 00:39:36.239 It was Jake Dunlap's ghost. That was what we said 744 00:39:36.239 --> 00:39:38.920 to ourselves. We couldn't stir for a minute or two. 745 00:39:39.199 --> 00:39:42.320 Then it was gone. We talked about it in low voices. 746 00:39:42.760 --> 00:39:47.679 Tom says, they're mostly dim and smoky, or like they've 747 00:39:47.960 --> 00:39:52.559 made out of fog. But this one wasn't. No, I says. 748 00:39:53.079 --> 00:39:56.920 I seen the goggles and the whiskers, perfectly plain, Yes, 749 00:39:57.639 --> 00:40:01.039 and the very colors in them. Loud Country had Sunday clothes, 750 00:40:01.480 --> 00:40:07.320 plaid breeches, green and black cotton, velvet waistcoat, fire red 751 00:40:07.360 --> 00:40:11.000 and yaller squares, leather straps to the bottoms of the 752 00:40:11.039 --> 00:40:15.119 breech's legs, and one of them hanging unbuttoned. Yes. And 753 00:40:15.280 --> 00:40:18.199 that hat. What a hat for a ghost to wear? 754 00:40:18.920 --> 00:40:21.239 You see, it was the first season anybody wore that 755 00:40:21.360 --> 00:40:25.440 kind a black, stiff brimmed stovepipe, very high and not smooth, 756 00:40:25.559 --> 00:40:28.360 with a round top, just like a sugar loaf. Did 757 00:40:28.400 --> 00:40:31.519 you notice if its hair was the same, Huck, No, 758 00:40:32.000 --> 00:40:34.360 seems to me I did. Then again, it seems to 759 00:40:34.400 --> 00:40:37.480 me I didn't. I didn't either, But it had its 760 00:40:37.519 --> 00:40:40.800 bag along. I noticed that, so did I. How can 761 00:40:40.800 --> 00:40:44.000 there be a ghost bag, Tom show, I wouldn't be 762 00:40:44.039 --> 00:40:45.920 as ignorant as that if I was. You huck Finn. 763 00:40:46.280 --> 00:40:49.559 Whatever a ghost has turns to ghost stuff. They've got 764 00:40:49.559 --> 00:40:52.199 to have their things like anybody else. You see it 765 00:40:52.239 --> 00:40:55.519 yourself that its clothes was turned to ghost stuff. Well, 766 00:40:55.559 --> 00:40:58.599 then wants to hander its bag from turning too. Of 767 00:40:58.679 --> 00:41:01.880 course had done it. That was reasonable. I couldn't find 768 00:41:01.880 --> 00:41:04.440 no fault with it. Bill Withers and his brother Jack 769 00:41:04.519 --> 00:41:07.840 come along by talkin and Jack says what he reckon? 770 00:41:07.920 --> 00:41:12.480 He was totin. I don't know, but it was pretty heavy. Yes, 771 00:41:13.199 --> 00:41:17.079 all he could lug niggers stealing corn from old pysin Silas. 772 00:41:17.119 --> 00:41:20.400 I judged, so did I, and so I allowed. I 773 00:41:20.480 --> 00:41:23.800 wouldn't let on to see him. That's me too. Then 774 00:41:23.800 --> 00:41:26.840 they both laughed and went on out o hearing. It 775 00:41:26.920 --> 00:41:30.320 showed how unpopular old Uncle Silas had got to be. Now. 776 00:41:30.920 --> 00:41:33.639 They wouldn't a let a nigger steal anybody else's corn. 777 00:41:33.679 --> 00:41:36.360 An never done anything to him. We heard some more 778 00:41:36.440 --> 00:41:40.280 voices mumbling along towards us and getting louder, and sometimes 779 00:41:40.280 --> 00:41:43.159 the cackle of a laugh. It was Lem Beebe and 780 00:41:43.320 --> 00:41:49.079 Jim Lane. Jim Lane says, hoo, Joe better dunlap. Yes, Oh, 781 00:41:49.239 --> 00:41:52.440 I don't know, I reckon, So I seen him spadin' 782 00:41:52.519 --> 00:41:54.920 up some ground along about an hour ago, just before 783 00:41:55.000 --> 00:41:58.320 sundown him An the parson said he guessed he wouldn't 784 00:41:58.320 --> 00:42:00.920 go to night, but we have his dog if we 785 00:42:01.000 --> 00:42:06.199 wanted him too. Tired, I reckon, yes, works so hard, 786 00:42:06.679 --> 00:42:11.119 Oh you bet. They cackled at that and went on by. 787 00:42:11.800 --> 00:42:14.679 Tom said we'd better jump out and tag along with them, 788 00:42:14.880 --> 00:42:17.159 because they was going our way and it wouldn't be 789 00:42:17.199 --> 00:42:20.039 comfortable to run across the ghost all by ourselves. So 790 00:42:20.119 --> 00:42:22.920 we'd done it and got home all right. That night 791 00:42:23.079 --> 00:42:26.280 was the second of September, a Saturday. I shan't ever 792 00:42:26.320 --> 00:42:31.239 forget it. You'll see why pretty soon. End of chapter five. 793 00:42:31.960 --> 00:42:36.559 Chapter six plans to secure the diamonds. We tramped along 794 00:42:36.639 --> 00:42:39.320 behind Jim and Lim till we come to the back 795 00:42:39.360 --> 00:42:43.199 style where old Jim's cabin was that he was captivated 796 00:42:43.239 --> 00:42:45.880 in the time we set him free, And here come 797 00:42:45.920 --> 00:42:48.920 the dogs piling around us to say howdie. And there 798 00:42:49.000 --> 00:42:51.119 was the lights of the house too, so we weren't 799 00:42:51.119 --> 00:42:54.280 afeared anymore, and was going to climb over, but Tom says, 800 00:42:54.480 --> 00:42:57.840 hold on, sit down here a minute. By George, what's 801 00:42:57.880 --> 00:43:02.239 the matter? Says? I matter enough? He says, wasn't you 802 00:43:02.280 --> 00:43:04.679 expecting we would be the first to tell the family 803 00:43:04.719 --> 00:43:07.239 who it is that's been killed Yonder and the sycamores, 804 00:43:07.559 --> 00:43:10.599 and all about them rapscallions that done it, and about 805 00:43:10.599 --> 00:43:13.559 the diamonds they've smooched off of the corpse, and paint 806 00:43:13.599 --> 00:43:15.920 it up fine, and have the glory of being the 807 00:43:15.920 --> 00:43:19.920 ones that knows a lot more about it than anyone else. Why, 808 00:43:20.280 --> 00:43:23.360 of course it wouldn't be you, Tom Sawyer, if you 809 00:43:23.480 --> 00:43:25.800 was to let such a chance go by, I reckon 810 00:43:25.880 --> 00:43:28.039 it ain't goin to suffer none for lack of paint, 811 00:43:28.239 --> 00:43:32.360 I says, when you started to scollop the facts. Well, now, 812 00:43:32.440 --> 00:43:35.280 he says, perfectly calm. What would you say if I 813 00:43:35.400 --> 00:43:37.480 was to tell you I ain't goin to start it 814 00:43:37.519 --> 00:43:40.840 at all? I was astonished to hear him talk, so 815 00:43:41.360 --> 00:43:44.920 I says, I'd say it's a lie. You ain't in earnest, 816 00:43:44.920 --> 00:43:49.480 Tom Sawyer. You'll soon see was the ghost barefooted? No 817 00:43:49.719 --> 00:43:52.760 he wasn't. What of it? You wait, I'll show you what. 818 00:43:53.280 --> 00:43:56.679 Did it have its boots on? Yes? I seen them? 819 00:43:56.719 --> 00:44:00.679 Plain swear it. Yes, I swear it? So do I? 820 00:44:01.280 --> 00:44:04.639 Now do you know what that means? No? What does 821 00:44:04.679 --> 00:44:09.880 it mean means? That them thieves didn't get the diamonds. Jimminy, 822 00:44:10.280 --> 00:44:13.039 what makes you think that? I don't only think it, 823 00:44:13.079 --> 00:44:16.280 I know it didn't. The breeches and goggles and whiskers 824 00:44:16.280 --> 00:44:20.000 and handbag and every blessed thing turned to ghost stuff. 825 00:44:20.159 --> 00:44:23.639 Everything it had on turn, didn't it. It shows that 826 00:44:23.719 --> 00:44:26.719 the reason its boots turned too was because it still 827 00:44:26.800 --> 00:44:29.719 had them on after it started to go hatting around. 828 00:44:30.079 --> 00:44:33.000 And if that ain't proof that them blathers skites didn't 829 00:44:33.039 --> 00:44:35.440 get the boots, I'd like to know what you'd call 830 00:44:35.639 --> 00:44:39.239 proof think of that now. I never see such a 831 00:44:39.320 --> 00:44:42.599 head as that boy had. Why I had eyes and 832 00:44:42.679 --> 00:44:45.159 I could see things, but they never meant nothing to me. 833 00:44:45.719 --> 00:44:49.519 But Tom Sawyer was different. When Tom Sawyer seen a thing, 834 00:44:49.639 --> 00:44:52.039 it just got up on its hind legs and talked 835 00:44:52.079 --> 00:44:55.480 to him, told him everything it knowed. I'd never see 836 00:44:55.519 --> 00:44:59.280 such a head Tom Sawyer, I says. I'll say it again, 837 00:44:59.320 --> 00:45:02.559 as I've said it many a time before. I ain't 838 00:45:02.639 --> 00:45:05.840 fittin to black your boots. But that's all right, that's 839 00:45:05.920 --> 00:45:09.000 neither here nor there. God Almighty made us all, and 840 00:45:09.199 --> 00:45:12.800 some he give eyes that's blind, and some he gives 841 00:45:12.800 --> 00:45:15.320 eyes that can see, and I reckon, it ain't none 842 00:45:15.360 --> 00:45:17.639 of our look out what he'd done it for? It's 843 00:45:17.679 --> 00:45:20.480 all right, or he'd have fixed it some other way. 844 00:45:20.840 --> 00:45:23.960 And go on, I see plenty plain enough now that 845 00:45:24.079 --> 00:45:27.199 them thieves didn't get away with the diamonds. Why didn't 846 00:45:27.239 --> 00:45:30.960 they do? You reckon? Because they got chased away by 847 00:45:31.000 --> 00:45:33.559 them other two men before they could pull the boots 848 00:45:33.599 --> 00:45:37.559 off the corpse. That's so, I see it now. But 849 00:45:37.880 --> 00:45:40.199 look a here, Tom, Why ain't we to go and 850 00:45:40.280 --> 00:45:43.639 tell about it? Oh? Shucks, huck finn, can't you see 851 00:45:44.039 --> 00:45:47.000 look at it? What's it going to happen? There's going 852 00:45:47.079 --> 00:45:49.760 to be an inquest in the mornin' Them two men 853 00:45:49.800 --> 00:45:52.199 will tell how they heard the yells and rushed there 854 00:45:52.400 --> 00:45:55.519 just in time to not save the stranger. Then the 855 00:45:55.639 --> 00:45:59.360 jury'll twaddle and twaddle and twaddle, and finally they'll fetch 856 00:45:59.360 --> 00:46:01.800 in a verdict that he got shot or stock or 857 00:46:01.840 --> 00:46:04.280 busted over the head with something and come to his 858 00:46:04.400 --> 00:46:08.400 death by the inspiration of God. And after they've buried him, 859 00:46:08.440 --> 00:46:11.000 they'll auction off his things for to pay the expenses. 860 00:46:11.199 --> 00:46:15.559 And then's our chance, how Tom buy the boots for 861 00:46:15.719 --> 00:46:21.719 two dollars? Well, it most took my breath, my land. Why, tom, 862 00:46:21.960 --> 00:46:25.320 we'll get the di'monds. You bet some day there'll be 863 00:46:25.360 --> 00:46:28.239 a big reward offered for them. A thousand dollars. Sure, 864 00:46:28.599 --> 00:46:32.079 that's our money. Now we'll trot in and see the folks. 865 00:46:32.440 --> 00:46:35.239 And mind you, we don't know anything about any murder, 866 00:46:35.320 --> 00:46:38.159 or any di'monds or any thieves. And don't you forget that. 867 00:46:38.800 --> 00:46:40.639 I had to sigh a little over the way he 868 00:46:40.679 --> 00:46:44.000 had got it fixed. I'd have sold them di'monds, yes, sir, 869 00:46:44.280 --> 00:46:47.800 for twelve thousand dollars, but I didn't say anything. It 870 00:46:47.800 --> 00:46:50.920 wouldn't have done any good. I says, But what are 871 00:46:50.920 --> 00:46:53.119 we going to tell your aunt? Sally has made us 872 00:46:53.159 --> 00:46:56.800 so long getting down here from the village. Tom Oh, 873 00:46:57.119 --> 00:46:59.519 I'll leave that to you, he says, I reckon, you 874 00:46:59.519 --> 00:47:02.760 can explain it somehow. He was always just that strict 875 00:47:02.800 --> 00:47:06.400 and delicate. He never would tell a lie himself. We 876 00:47:06.559 --> 00:47:09.800 struck across the big yard, noticing this, that and the 877 00:47:09.880 --> 00:47:12.840 other thing that was so familiar, and we so glad 878 00:47:12.840 --> 00:47:14.920 to see it again. And when we got to the 879 00:47:15.000 --> 00:47:18.400 roofed big passageway betwixt the double log house and the 880 00:47:18.480 --> 00:47:21.559 kitchen part, there was everything hanging on the wall, just 881 00:47:21.599 --> 00:47:24.440 as it used to was even to Uncle Silas's old 882 00:47:24.480 --> 00:47:27.320 faded green baize working gown with the hood to it 883 00:47:27.719 --> 00:47:31.159 and raggedy white patch between the shoulders that always looked 884 00:47:31.199 --> 00:47:33.760 like somebody had hit him with a snowball. And then 885 00:47:33.760 --> 00:47:36.679 we lifted the latch and walked in. Aunt Sally. She 886 00:47:36.840 --> 00:47:39.280 was just a rippin and a tearin' around, and the 887 00:47:39.400 --> 00:47:42.000 children was huddled in one corner, and the old man, 888 00:47:42.079 --> 00:47:44.320 he was huddled in the other and praying for help 889 00:47:44.360 --> 00:47:47.039 in time of need. She jumped for us with joy 890 00:47:47.079 --> 00:47:49.320 and tears running down her face, and give us a 891 00:47:49.360 --> 00:47:52.239 whacking box on the ear, and then hugged us and 892 00:47:52.519 --> 00:47:55.480 kissed us and boxed us again, and just couldn't seem 893 00:47:55.480 --> 00:47:57.239 to get enough of it. She was so glad to 894 00:47:57.239 --> 00:48:01.000 see us, and she says, where have you been? A 895 00:48:01.079 --> 00:48:04.320 loafin two? You good for nothin' trash. I've been that 896 00:48:04.639 --> 00:48:07.679 worried about you. I didn't know what to do your 897 00:48:07.719 --> 00:48:10.599 traps has been here ever so long, and I've had 898 00:48:10.639 --> 00:48:13.280 supper cooked fresh about four times so as to have 899 00:48:13.400 --> 00:48:16.079 it hot and good when you come. Till at last 900 00:48:16.119 --> 00:48:18.559 my patience has just plumb war out an I declare, 901 00:48:18.639 --> 00:48:22.400 I I why I could skin you alive. You must 902 00:48:22.440 --> 00:48:26.360 be starving, poor things. Sit down, Sit down, everybody, don't 903 00:48:26.400 --> 00:48:29.639 lose no more time. It was good to be there again, 904 00:48:29.840 --> 00:48:33.119 behind all that noble corn pone and spare ribs and 905 00:48:33.239 --> 00:48:35.880 everything that you could ever want in this world. Old 906 00:48:35.960 --> 00:48:39.119 uncle silas he peeled off one of his bulliest old 907 00:48:39.159 --> 00:48:42.360 time blessings with as many layers to it as an onion. 908 00:48:42.679 --> 00:48:45.280 And whilst the angels was hauling in the slack of it, 909 00:48:45.679 --> 00:48:47.840 I was trying to study up what to say about 910 00:48:47.960 --> 00:48:50.800 what kept us so long? When our plates was all 911 00:48:50.800 --> 00:48:53.480 loadened and we'd a got a going, she asked me, 912 00:48:53.519 --> 00:48:58.400 and I says, well, you see, missus, huck Finn, Since 913 00:48:58.440 --> 00:49:00.920 when am I missus to you? Have I ever been 914 00:49:01.000 --> 00:49:03.639 stingy of cuffs or kisses for you? Since the day 915 00:49:03.639 --> 00:49:05.239 you stood in this room and I took you for 916 00:49:05.320 --> 00:49:07.599 Tom Sawyer and blessed God for sending you to me. 917 00:49:08.079 --> 00:49:10.760 Though you told me four thousand lies, and I believed 918 00:49:10.800 --> 00:49:13.519 every one of them like a simpleton call me Aunt 919 00:49:13.559 --> 00:49:16.440 Sally like you always done. So I'd done it, and 920 00:49:16.519 --> 00:49:20.519 I says, well, me and Tom allowed we would come 921 00:49:20.559 --> 00:49:22.559 along a foot and take a smell of the woods, 922 00:49:22.840 --> 00:49:25.679 and we run across lem Beebee and Jim Lane, and 923 00:49:25.719 --> 00:49:28.119 they asked us to go with them black bearing tonight 924 00:49:28.440 --> 00:49:31.760 and said they could borrow Jubiter Dunlap's dog because he 925 00:49:31.800 --> 00:49:34.639 had told them just that minute. Where did they see him? 926 00:49:34.880 --> 00:49:36.960 Says the old man. And when I looked up to 927 00:49:37.000 --> 00:49:39.800 see how he come to take an interest in a 928 00:49:39.840 --> 00:49:42.679 little thing like that, his eyes was just burning into me. 929 00:49:42.760 --> 00:49:45.719 He was that eager. It surprised me, so it kind 930 00:49:45.719 --> 00:49:48.480 of throwed me off. But I pulled myself together again 931 00:49:48.519 --> 00:49:51.360 and says it was when we was spading up some 932 00:49:51.519 --> 00:49:55.239 ground along with you, towards sundown or along there. He 933 00:49:55.360 --> 00:49:59.039 only said hmm in a kind of a disappointed way, 934 00:49:59.440 --> 00:50:01.960 and didn't take no more interest. So I went on, 935 00:50:02.199 --> 00:50:05.360 I says, well, then, as I was a saying that'll 936 00:50:05.400 --> 00:50:08.679 do you needn't go no further, it was Aunt Sally. 937 00:50:09.199 --> 00:50:11.280 She was boring right into me with her eyes and 938 00:50:11.519 --> 00:50:15.360 very indignant. Hut finn. She says, how'd them men come 939 00:50:15.400 --> 00:50:18.840 to talk about going a black berrying in September in 940 00:50:19.159 --> 00:50:22.639 this region? I see I had slipped up, and I 941 00:50:22.679 --> 00:50:26.159 couldn't say a word. She waited, still a gazing at me. 942 00:50:26.280 --> 00:50:29.519 Then she says, and how'd they come to strike that 943 00:50:29.679 --> 00:50:33.719 idiot idea of going a blackberrying in the night? Well 944 00:50:34.360 --> 00:50:38.599 they are They told us they had a lantern, and 945 00:50:38.800 --> 00:50:42.199 oh shut up, do look here? What was they going 946 00:50:42.239 --> 00:50:46.639 to do with the dog? Hunt blackberries with it? I think, man? 947 00:50:46.760 --> 00:50:49.360 They naw, Tom Sawyer, what kind of a lie are 948 00:50:49.400 --> 00:50:51.960 you fixing your mouth to contribute to this mess of rubbage? 949 00:50:52.440 --> 00:50:55.039 Speak out? And I warn you before you begin that 950 00:50:55.159 --> 00:50:57.239 I don't believe a word of it. You and Huck's 951 00:50:57.280 --> 00:50:59.480 been up to something, you know, business to I know 952 00:50:59.599 --> 00:51:03.039 it perfect well, I know you, both of you. Now 953 00:51:03.159 --> 00:51:06.480 you explained that dog and then blackberries and the lantern 954 00:51:06.519 --> 00:51:08.679 and the rest of that rot And mind you talk 955 00:51:08.719 --> 00:51:11.719 as straight as a string, d'ye hear? Tom? He looked 956 00:51:11.760 --> 00:51:16.079 considerable hurt and says, very dignified. It is a pity 957 00:51:16.119 --> 00:51:19.079 if Huck is to be talked to that way, just 958 00:51:19.159 --> 00:51:21.719 from making a little bit of a mistake that anybody 959 00:51:21.760 --> 00:51:26.079 could make. What mistake has he made? Why only the 960 00:51:26.119 --> 00:51:29.320 mistake of saying blackberries, when, of course he meant strawberries, 961 00:51:30.000 --> 00:51:32.679 Tom Sawyer, I lay, if you aggravate me a little more, 962 00:51:32.719 --> 00:51:36.239 I'll Aunt Sally, without knowing it, and of course without 963 00:51:36.239 --> 00:51:39.400 intending it, you are in the wrong. If you'd have 964 00:51:39.440 --> 00:51:42.199 studied natural history the way you walked to you would 965 00:51:42.199 --> 00:51:45.360 know that all over the world except just here in Arkansas, 966 00:51:45.400 --> 00:51:48.880 they always hunt strawberries with a dog and a lantern. 967 00:51:49.639 --> 00:51:52.119 But she busted in on him there and just piled 968 00:51:52.119 --> 00:51:54.760 into him and snowed him under. She was so mad 969 00:51:54.800 --> 00:51:57.159 she couldn't get the words out fast enough, and she 970 00:51:57.320 --> 00:52:01.400 gushed them out in one everlasting fresh That was what 971 00:52:01.480 --> 00:52:04.440 Tom Sawyer was after. He allowed to work her up 972 00:52:04.480 --> 00:52:06.880 and get her started, and then leave her alone and 973 00:52:07.159 --> 00:52:09.639 let her burn herself out. Then she would be so 974 00:52:09.800 --> 00:52:12.840 aggravated with that subject that she wouldn't say another word 975 00:52:12.840 --> 00:52:16.800 about it, nor let anybody else. Well, it happened just 976 00:52:16.920 --> 00:52:19.880 so when she was tuckered out and had to hold up, 977 00:52:20.039 --> 00:52:23.840 he says, quite calm, and yet all the same, Aunt 978 00:52:23.920 --> 00:52:26.280 Sally shut up. She says, I don't want to hear 979 00:52:26.320 --> 00:52:30.039 another word out of you. So we was perfectly safe 980 00:52:30.079 --> 00:52:33.000 then and didn't have no more trouble about that delay. 981 00:52:33.760 --> 00:52:39.199 Tom done it elegant. End of chapter six, Chapter seven, 982 00:52:39.800 --> 00:52:45.000 A Night's Vigil Banny. She was looking pretty sober, and 983 00:52:45.119 --> 00:52:48.400 she sighed some now and then, but pretty soon she 984 00:52:48.440 --> 00:52:52.039 got to asking about Mary and Sid and Tom's Aunt Polly, 985 00:52:52.440 --> 00:52:55.199 and then Aunt Sally's clouds cleared off, and she got 986 00:52:55.199 --> 00:52:58.000 in a good humor and joined in on the questions 987 00:52:58.280 --> 00:53:01.360 and was her lovingest, best self. And so the rest 988 00:53:01.360 --> 00:53:04.239 of the supper went along, gay and pleasant. But the 989 00:53:04.320 --> 00:53:07.199 old man he didn't take any hand hardly, and was 990 00:53:07.280 --> 00:53:10.840 absent minded and restless, and done a considerable amount of sighing, 991 00:53:11.199 --> 00:53:13.360 And it was kind of heartbreaking to see him so 992 00:53:13.559 --> 00:53:17.239 sad and troubled and worried by and by a spell 993 00:53:17.280 --> 00:53:19.800 after supper come a nigger and knocked on the door 994 00:53:19.840 --> 00:53:21.960 and put his head in with his old straw hat 995 00:53:21.960 --> 00:53:25.079 in his hand, bowing and scraping, and said his Mar's 996 00:53:25.079 --> 00:53:28.079 brace was out at the style, and wanted his brother, 997 00:53:28.400 --> 00:53:31.079 and was getting tired waiting supper for him, and would 998 00:53:31.079 --> 00:53:35.039 Mars Silas please tell him where he was? I never 999 00:53:35.079 --> 00:53:37.960 see Uncle Silas speak up so sharp and fractious before 1000 00:53:38.320 --> 00:53:42.239 he says, am I his brother's keeper? And then he 1001 00:53:42.599 --> 00:53:45.280 kind of wilted together and looked like he wished he 1002 00:53:45.320 --> 00:53:48.199 hadn't spoken so, and then he says, very gentle, but 1003 00:53:48.960 --> 00:53:52.800 you needn't say that. Billy. I was took sudden and irritable, 1004 00:53:53.119 --> 00:53:56.559 and I ain't very well these days, and not hardly responsible. 1005 00:53:56.800 --> 00:53:59.559 Tell him he ain't he And when the nigger was gone, 1006 00:53:59.639 --> 00:54:03.119 he got up and walked the floor backwards and forwards, 1007 00:54:03.480 --> 00:54:07.159 mumbling and muttering to himself and plowing his hands through 1008 00:54:07.159 --> 00:54:11.360 his hair. It was real pitiful to see him, aunt Sally, 1009 00:54:11.440 --> 00:54:13.280 she whispered to us, and told us not to take 1010 00:54:13.320 --> 00:54:16.719 notice of him. It embarrassed him. She said he was 1011 00:54:16.800 --> 00:54:20.079 always thinking and thinking since these troubles come on, And 1012 00:54:20.239 --> 00:54:23.159 she allowed he didn't more'n bout half know what he 1013 00:54:23.320 --> 00:54:26.039 was about when the thinking spells was on him. And 1014 00:54:26.119 --> 00:54:29.360 she said he walked in his sleep considerable more now 1015 00:54:29.400 --> 00:54:32.280 than he used to, and sometimes wandered around over the 1016 00:54:32.320 --> 00:54:34.880 house and even outdoors in his sleep. And if we 1017 00:54:35.000 --> 00:54:37.280 catched him at it, we must let him alone and 1018 00:54:37.400 --> 00:54:40.679 not disturb him, she said, she reckoned it didn't do 1019 00:54:40.840 --> 00:54:44.639 no harm, and maybe it done him good. She said 1020 00:54:44.639 --> 00:54:46.840 Benny was the only one that was much help to 1021 00:54:46.920 --> 00:54:49.960 him these days. Said Benny appeared to know just when 1022 00:54:50.000 --> 00:54:52.480 to try to soothe him and when to leave him alone. 1023 00:54:52.880 --> 00:54:55.480 So he kept on tramping up and down the floor 1024 00:54:55.519 --> 00:54:58.400 and muttering till by and by he begun to look 1025 00:54:58.440 --> 00:55:01.760 pretty tired. Then, Benny, she went and snuggled up to 1026 00:55:01.800 --> 00:55:04.880 his side, and put one hand in his and one 1027 00:55:05.079 --> 00:55:08.000 arm around his waist, and walked with him, and he 1028 00:55:08.079 --> 00:55:10.719 smiled down on her and reached down and kissed her, 1029 00:55:11.079 --> 00:55:14.239 and so little by little the trouble went out of 1030 00:55:14.239 --> 00:55:16.800 his face, and she persuaded him off to his room. 1031 00:55:17.119 --> 00:55:20.360 They had very petting ways together, and it was uncommon 1032 00:55:20.400 --> 00:55:23.440 pretty to see Aunt Sally. She was busy getting the 1033 00:55:23.480 --> 00:55:26.199 children ready for bed, So by and by it got 1034 00:55:26.320 --> 00:55:29.039 dull and tedious, and me and Tom took a turn 1035 00:55:29.079 --> 00:55:32.039 in the moonlight and fetched up in the watermelon patch 1036 00:55:32.079 --> 00:55:34.480 and et one and had a good deal of talk. 1037 00:55:34.880 --> 00:55:38.239 And Tom said he'd bet the quarreling was all Jubiter's fault, 1038 00:55:38.480 --> 00:55:40.199 and he was going to be on hand the first 1039 00:55:40.199 --> 00:55:42.360 time he got a chance and see, and if it 1040 00:55:42.480 --> 00:55:45.239 was so, he was going to do his level best 1041 00:55:45.239 --> 00:55:47.920 to get Uncle Silas to turn him off. And so 1042 00:55:48.079 --> 00:55:51.960 we talked and smoked and stuffed watermelons much as two hours, 1043 00:55:52.360 --> 00:55:54.480 and then it was pretty late, and when we got 1044 00:55:54.519 --> 00:55:57.599 back the house was quiet and dark, and everybody gone 1045 00:55:57.599 --> 00:56:01.320 to bed. Tom he always seen everything, and now he 1046 00:56:01.400 --> 00:56:04.519 see that the old green baize work gown was gone, 1047 00:56:05.000 --> 00:56:07.159 and said it wasn't gone when he went out, so 1048 00:56:07.280 --> 00:56:09.639 he allowed it was curious, and then we went up 1049 00:56:09.639 --> 00:56:12.760 to bed. We could hear Benny stirring round in her room, 1050 00:56:12.920 --> 00:56:16.320 which was next time, and judged she was worried a 1051 00:56:16.360 --> 00:56:19.159 good deal about her father and couldn't sleep. We found 1052 00:56:19.199 --> 00:56:22.199 we couldn't either, so we set up a long time 1053 00:56:22.280 --> 00:56:25.320 and smoked and talked in a low voice and felt 1054 00:56:25.320 --> 00:56:28.880 pretty dull and downhearted. We talked the murderer and the 1055 00:56:28.920 --> 00:56:31.760 ghost over and over again and got so creepy and 1056 00:56:31.880 --> 00:56:35.679 crawley we couldn't get sleepy. Nohow and no way bye bye. 1057 00:56:36.039 --> 00:56:38.119 When it was away late in the night and all 1058 00:56:38.159 --> 00:56:41.480 the sounds was late sounds and solemn. Tom nudged me 1059 00:56:41.559 --> 00:56:44.679 and whispers to me, look and I'd done it. And 1060 00:56:44.800 --> 00:56:47.159 there we see a man poking around in the yard 1061 00:56:47.239 --> 00:56:49.280 like he didn't know just what he wanted to do, 1062 00:56:49.719 --> 00:56:52.280 but it was pretty dim and we couldn't see him good. 1063 00:56:52.760 --> 00:56:55.440 Then he started for the style, and as he went 1064 00:56:55.480 --> 00:56:58.000 over it, the moon came out strong and he had 1065 00:56:58.039 --> 00:57:01.000 a long handled shovel over his shoulder, and we see 1066 00:57:01.039 --> 00:57:04.079 the white patch on the old workgown. So Tom says, 1067 00:57:04.719 --> 00:57:07.639 he's walking in his sleep. I wish we was allowed 1068 00:57:07.679 --> 00:57:10.440 to follow him and see where he's going to. There 1069 00:57:10.920 --> 00:57:13.800 he's turned down by the tobacco field, out of sight. 1070 00:57:13.920 --> 00:57:17.119 Now it's a dreadful pity. He can't rest no better. 1071 00:57:17.800 --> 00:57:21.039 We waited a long time, but he didn't come back anymore, 1072 00:57:21.480 --> 00:57:23.559 or if he did, he'd come around the other way. 1073 00:57:23.840 --> 00:57:25.840 So at last we was tuckered out and went to 1074 00:57:25.880 --> 00:57:29.559 sleep and had nightmares, a million of them. But before 1075 00:57:29.639 --> 00:57:33.079 dawn we was awake again because meantime a storm had 1076 00:57:33.079 --> 00:57:35.760 come up and been raging, and the thunder and lightning 1077 00:57:35.840 --> 00:57:38.920 was awful, and the wind was a thrashing the trees around, 1078 00:57:39.239 --> 00:57:42.480 and the rain was driving down and slanting sheets, and 1079 00:57:42.519 --> 00:57:46.239 the gullies was running rivers. Tom says, lookye here, huck, 1080 00:57:46.559 --> 00:57:49.440 I'll tell you one thing that's mighty curious. Up to 1081 00:57:49.480 --> 00:57:51.719 the time we went out last night, the family hadn't 1082 00:57:51.719 --> 00:57:54.920 heard about Jake Dunlap being murdered. Now, the men that 1083 00:57:55.039 --> 00:57:58.119 chased Hal Clayton and Bud Dixon away would spread the 1084 00:57:58.159 --> 00:58:01.039 thing around in half an hour, and neighbor that heard 1085 00:58:01.079 --> 00:58:03.559 it would shin out and fly around from one farm 1086 00:58:03.639 --> 00:58:05.599 to' other and try to be the first to tell 1087 00:58:05.599 --> 00:58:09.039 the news. Land. They don't have such a big thing 1088 00:58:09.079 --> 00:58:12.360 as that to tell twice in thirty year, Huck, it's 1089 00:58:12.480 --> 00:58:15.760 mighty strange. I don't understand it. So then he was 1090 00:58:15.800 --> 00:58:17.599 in a fidget for the rain to let up so 1091 00:58:17.880 --> 00:58:20.119 we could turn out and run across some of the 1092 00:58:20.159 --> 00:58:22.519 people and see if they would say anything about it 1093 00:58:22.559 --> 00:58:25.360 to us. And he said, if they did, we must 1094 00:58:25.360 --> 00:58:28.440 be horribly surprised and shocked. We was out and gone 1095 00:58:28.480 --> 00:58:31.199 a minute the rain stopped. It was just broad day. 1096 00:58:31.280 --> 00:58:34.159 Then we loafed along up the road and now and 1097 00:58:34.199 --> 00:58:36.679 then met a person and stopped and said howdy, and 1098 00:58:36.760 --> 00:58:38.960 told them when we come, and how we left the 1099 00:58:38.960 --> 00:58:41.239 folks at home, and how long we was going to 1100 00:58:41.239 --> 00:58:44.039 stay and all that. But none of them said a 1101 00:58:44.039 --> 00:58:47.760 word about that thing, which was just astonishing, and no mistake. 1102 00:58:48.360 --> 00:58:51.079 Tom said he believed if we went to the sycamores, 1103 00:58:51.239 --> 00:58:53.920 we would find that body laying there, solitary and alone, 1104 00:58:54.119 --> 00:58:56.960 and not a soul around. Said he believed the men 1105 00:58:57.039 --> 00:58:59.480 chased the thieves so far into the woods that the thieves. 1106 00:58:59.480 --> 00:59:01.760 Probably I've seen a good chance and turned on them 1107 00:59:01.800 --> 00:59:04.719 at last, and maybe they all killed each other, and 1108 00:59:04.760 --> 00:59:08.519 so there wasn't anybody left to tell. First renowed gabbling 1109 00:59:08.559 --> 00:59:11.760 along that way. We was right at the sycamores. The 1110 00:59:11.840 --> 00:59:15.159 cold chills trickled down my back, and I wouldn't budge 1111 00:59:15.159 --> 00:59:18.920 another step for all Tom's persuading, But he couldn't hold in. 1112 00:59:19.119 --> 00:59:21.280 He'd got to see if the boots were safe on 1113 00:59:21.320 --> 00:59:24.360 that body yet, so he crope in and the next 1114 00:59:24.360 --> 00:59:26.840 minute out he comes again, with his eyes bulging. He 1115 00:59:26.880 --> 00:59:32.400 was so excited and says, Huck, it's gone. I was astonished. 1116 00:59:32.440 --> 00:59:35.639 I says, Tom, you don't meet it. It's gone. Sure, 1117 00:59:35.920 --> 00:59:38.480 there ain't a sign of it. The ground has trampled some, 1118 00:59:38.920 --> 00:59:41.960 but if there was any blood, it's all washed away 1119 00:59:42.000 --> 00:59:44.760 by the storm, for it's all puddles and slush in there. 1120 00:59:45.159 --> 00:59:47.719 At last, I gave in and went and took a 1121 00:59:47.719 --> 00:59:50.760 look myself, and it was just as Tom said. There 1122 00:59:50.840 --> 00:59:53.840 wasn't a sign of a corpse. Turn it, I says, 1123 00:59:54.079 --> 00:59:57.000 the di'monds is gone. Don't you reckon? The thieves slunk 1124 00:59:57.039 --> 01:00:00.239 back and lugged him off. Tom looks like it. It 1125 01:00:00.400 --> 01:00:03.360 just does now where'd they hide him? Do you reckon? 1126 01:00:03.880 --> 01:00:06.800 I don't know, I says, disgusted. And what's more, I 1127 01:00:06.840 --> 01:00:09.719 don't care. They've got the boots, and that's all I 1128 01:00:09.800 --> 01:00:12.880 cared about. He'll lay around these woods a long time 1129 01:00:12.920 --> 01:00:15.679 before I hunt him up. Tom didn't feel no more 1130 01:00:15.760 --> 01:00:19.039 interest in him, neither, only curiosity to know what come 1131 01:00:19.079 --> 01:00:21.679 of him. But he said we'd lay low and keep dark, 1132 01:00:21.719 --> 01:00:24.559 and it wouldn't belonged till the dogs or somebody roused 1133 01:00:24.679 --> 01:00:27.679 him out. We went back home to breakfast. Ever so 1134 01:00:27.920 --> 01:00:32.480 bothered and put out and disappointed and swindled. I warn't 1135 01:00:32.519 --> 01:00:37.239 ever so down on a corpse before end of chapter seven, 1136 01:00:37.920 --> 01:00:42.159 Chapter eight, talking with the ghost, it warn't very cheerful 1137 01:00:42.199 --> 01:00:45.679 at breakfast. Aunt Sally she looked old and tired and 1138 01:00:46.119 --> 01:00:48.760 let the children snarl and s fuss at one another, 1139 01:00:48.800 --> 01:00:50.840 and didn't seem to notice it was going on, which 1140 01:00:51.039 --> 01:00:54.760 wasn't her usual style. Me and Tom had plenty to 1141 01:00:54.800 --> 01:00:58.280 think about without talking. Benny, she looked like she hadn't 1142 01:00:58.280 --> 01:01:00.920 had much sleep, and whenever she'd lift her head a 1143 01:01:00.920 --> 01:01:03.519 little and steal a look towards her father, you could 1144 01:01:03.559 --> 01:01:06.039 see there was tears in her eyes. And as for 1145 01:01:06.119 --> 01:01:08.800 the old man. His thing stayed on his plate and 1146 01:01:08.880 --> 01:01:11.400 got cold without him knowing they was there. I reckon, 1147 01:01:11.800 --> 01:01:14.000 for he was thinking and thinking all the time, and 1148 01:01:14.079 --> 01:01:17.360 never said a word, and never read a bite. By 1149 01:01:17.400 --> 01:01:20.360 and by when it was stillest, that nigger's head was 1150 01:01:20.400 --> 01:01:22.440 poked in at the door again, and he said his 1151 01:01:22.639 --> 01:01:26.440 Mar's brace was getting powerful, uneasy about Mars Jubiter, which 1152 01:01:26.480 --> 01:01:30.079 hadn't come home yet, and would Mars Silas please. He 1153 01:01:30.159 --> 01:01:32.679 was looking at Uncle Silas, and he stopped there like 1154 01:01:32.760 --> 01:01:35.480 the rest of his words was froze. For Uncle Silas. 1155 01:01:35.519 --> 01:01:38.440 He rose up shaky and steadied himself, leaning his fingers 1156 01:01:38.480 --> 01:01:41.199 on the table, and he was panting, and his eyes 1157 01:01:41.280 --> 01:01:44.039 was set on the nigga, and he kept swallowing and 1158 01:01:44.119 --> 01:01:46.079 put his other hand up to his throat a couple 1159 01:01:46.079 --> 01:01:48.719 of times, and at last he got his words started 1160 01:01:48.760 --> 01:01:55.360 and says, does he does he think? What does he think? 1161 01:01:55.719 --> 01:01:59.239 Tell him? Tell him? Then he sunk down in his 1162 01:01:59.360 --> 01:02:02.440 chair and weak and says, so as you could hardly 1163 01:02:02.480 --> 01:02:07.440 hear him, go away, go away. Nigga looked scared and 1164 01:02:07.599 --> 01:02:10.559 cleared out, and we all felt well, I don't know 1165 01:02:10.840 --> 01:02:13.360 how we felt it, but it was awful with the 1166 01:02:13.400 --> 01:02:16.400 old man panting there, and his eyes set and looking 1167 01:02:16.440 --> 01:02:19.400 like a person that was dying. None of us could budge. 1168 01:02:19.760 --> 01:02:23.559 But Benny she slid around, soft, with her tears running down, 1169 01:02:23.639 --> 01:02:26.760 and stood by his side, and nestled his old gray 1170 01:02:26.880 --> 01:02:29.360 head up against her, and begun to stroke it and 1171 01:02:29.519 --> 01:02:31.920 pet it with her hands, and nodded to us to 1172 01:02:31.960 --> 01:02:34.599 go away. And we done it, going out, very quiet, 1173 01:02:34.760 --> 01:02:37.800 like the dead was there. Me and Tom struck out 1174 01:02:37.800 --> 01:02:40.440 for the woods, mighty solemn, and saying, how different it 1175 01:02:40.559 --> 01:02:42.719 was now to what it was last summer when we 1176 01:02:42.719 --> 01:02:45.480 was here, and everything was so peaceful and happy, and 1177 01:02:45.559 --> 01:02:48.400 everybody thought so much of Uncle Silas, and he was 1178 01:02:48.440 --> 01:02:51.639 so cheerful and simple hearted and putting headed and good. 1179 01:02:52.320 --> 01:02:54.880 And now look at him. If he hadn't lost his mind, 1180 01:02:54.880 --> 01:02:57.480 he wasn't much short of it. That was what we allowed. 1181 01:02:58.159 --> 01:03:01.440 It was a most lovely day, now, bright and sunshiny. 1182 01:03:01.840 --> 01:03:04.039 And the further and further we went over the hills 1183 01:03:04.079 --> 01:03:07.199 towards the prairie, the lovelier and lovelier the trees an 1184 01:03:07.239 --> 01:03:10.320 flowers got to be, and the more it seemed strange 1185 01:03:10.360 --> 01:03:13.000 and somehow wrong that there had to be trouble in 1186 01:03:13.119 --> 01:03:15.119 such a world as this, And then all of a 1187 01:03:15.199 --> 01:03:18.199 sudden I catched my breath and grabbed Tom's arm, and 1188 01:03:18.440 --> 01:03:21.159 all my livers and lungs an things fell down in 1189 01:03:21.239 --> 01:03:24.679 my legs. There it is, I says. We jumped back 1190 01:03:24.719 --> 01:03:27.599 behind a bus, shivering, and Tom says, sh don't make 1191 01:03:27.639 --> 01:03:30.920 a noise. It was settin on a log right in 1192 01:03:31.000 --> 01:03:33.920 the edge of a little prairie thinkin. I tried to 1193 01:03:33.960 --> 01:03:36.679 get Tom to come away, but he wouldn't. I doesn't 1194 01:03:36.719 --> 01:03:39.519 budge him by myself. He said we mightn't ever get 1195 01:03:39.559 --> 01:03:41.880 another chance to see one. An he was goin to 1196 01:03:41.960 --> 01:03:44.400 look his fill at this one if he died for it. 1197 01:03:44.920 --> 01:03:47.280 So I looked too, though it give me the fan 1198 01:03:47.440 --> 01:03:50.199 TODs to do it. Tom he had to talk, and 1199 01:03:50.320 --> 01:03:53.840 he talked low. He says, poor Jakie, it's got all 1200 01:03:53.920 --> 01:03:56.760 its things on, just as he said he would. Now 1201 01:03:57.119 --> 01:04:01.599 you see what we wasn't certain about. It's it's not 1202 01:04:01.800 --> 01:04:04.599 long now the way it was. It's got it cropped 1203 01:04:04.639 --> 01:04:06.599 close to its head the way he said he would. 1204 01:04:07.079 --> 01:04:09.800 HU can never see anything look any more naturaler than 1205 01:04:09.840 --> 01:04:13.679 what it does, nor I neither. I says I'd recognize 1206 01:04:13.719 --> 01:04:18.320 it anywheres, so would I. It looks perfectly solid and genuine, 1207 01:04:18.559 --> 01:04:21.280 just the way it done before it died. So we 1208 01:04:21.440 --> 01:04:26.079 kept gazing. Pretty soon, Tom says, Huck, there's something mighty 1209 01:04:26.119 --> 01:04:28.719 curious about this one, don't you know? It oughtn't to 1210 01:04:28.760 --> 01:04:32.039 be going around in the daytime. That's so, Tom, I 1211 01:04:32.119 --> 01:04:35.599 never heard the like of it before, No, sir, they 1212 01:04:35.599 --> 01:04:38.559 don't ever come out. Only at night, and then not 1213 01:04:38.639 --> 01:04:42.079 till after twelve. There's something wrong about this one, now, 1214 01:04:42.119 --> 01:04:44.719 you mark my words. I don't believe it's got any 1215 01:04:44.800 --> 01:04:47.559 right to be around in the daytime, But don't it 1216 01:04:47.639 --> 01:04:51.159 look natural? Jake was going to play deef and dumb here, 1217 01:04:51.400 --> 01:04:54.079 so the neighbors wouldn't know his voice. Do you reckon? 1218 01:04:54.119 --> 01:04:57.199 It would do that if we was to holler at it. Lordy, 1219 01:04:57.280 --> 01:05:00.159 Tom don't talk, So if you was to holler at 1220 01:05:00.440 --> 01:05:03.199 I'd die in my tracks, don't you worry. I ain't 1221 01:05:03.239 --> 01:05:06.000 going to holler at it. Look, Huck, it's a scratch 1222 01:05:06.039 --> 01:05:08.840 in its head, don't you see? Well? What of it? 1223 01:05:09.480 --> 01:05:12.400 Why this? What's the sense of it scratching its head? 1224 01:05:12.800 --> 01:05:15.519 There ain't anything there to itch. Its head is made 1225 01:05:15.519 --> 01:05:18.159 out of fog or something like that, and can't itch 1226 01:05:18.400 --> 01:05:21.599 a fog can't itch. Any fool knows that. Well, then 1227 01:05:21.880 --> 01:05:24.599 if it don't itch and can't itch, what the nation 1228 01:05:24.760 --> 01:05:27.559 is it scratching it for? Ain't it just habit? Don't 1229 01:05:27.599 --> 01:05:30.639 you reckon? No, sir, I don't. I ain't a bit 1230 01:05:30.760 --> 01:05:33.639 satisfied about the way this one acts. I've a blame 1231 01:05:33.719 --> 01:05:36.880 good notion. It's a bogus one. I have as sure 1232 01:05:36.920 --> 01:05:41.199 as I'm a sitting here, because if it, Huck, well, 1233 01:05:41.239 --> 01:05:47.079 what's the matter now? You can't see the bushes through it? Well? Tom, 1234 01:05:47.159 --> 01:05:51.159 it's so sure, it's as solid as a cow. Ah 1235 01:05:51.199 --> 01:05:54.280 sort of begin to think, Huck, it's biting off a 1236 01:05:54.360 --> 01:05:58.719 chaw off tobaccer by George. They don't chaw, they ain't 1237 01:05:58.719 --> 01:06:02.719 got anything to chaw with. Uck, I'm listenin. He ain't 1238 01:06:02.760 --> 01:06:06.800 a ghost at all. It's Jake Dunlap his own self. 1239 01:06:07.440 --> 01:06:10.679 Oh you're granny, I says Cuck. Finn. Did we find 1240 01:06:10.760 --> 01:06:14.760 any corpse in the sycamores? No, or any sign of one? No? 1241 01:06:15.760 --> 01:06:19.639 Mighty good reason hadn't ever been any corpse there? Why? Tom? 1242 01:06:19.679 --> 01:06:22.840 You know we heard, Yes, we did, heard a howl 1243 01:06:22.960 --> 01:06:26.199 or two. Does that prove anybody was killed? Course it don't. 1244 01:06:26.679 --> 01:06:29.400 And we see four men run, Then this one come 1245 01:06:29.480 --> 01:06:31.719 walkin' out an we took it for a ghost, no 1246 01:06:31.840 --> 01:06:34.719 more ghost than you are. It was Jake Dunlap his 1247 01:06:34.760 --> 01:06:38.159 own self, and it's Jake Dunlap. Now he's been and 1248 01:06:38.280 --> 01:06:40.559 got his hair cropped the way he said he would, 1249 01:06:40.800 --> 01:06:43.480 and he's playing himself for a stranger, just the same 1250 01:06:43.519 --> 01:06:47.280 as he said he would. Ghost. M he's as sound 1251 01:06:47.320 --> 01:06:50.000 as a nut. Then I see it all, and how 1252 01:06:50.039 --> 01:06:53.559 we had took too much for granted, I was powerful 1253 01:06:53.599 --> 01:06:56.400 glad he didn't get killed, and so is Tom. And 1254 01:06:56.480 --> 01:06:59.079 we wondered which he would like the best for us 1255 01:06:59.119 --> 01:07:02.960 to never let on to know him, or how Tom 1256 01:07:03.159 --> 01:07:05.920 reckoned the best way would be to go and ask him, 1257 01:07:06.119 --> 01:07:09.519 so he started, but I kept a little behind because 1258 01:07:10.119 --> 01:07:12.400 I didn't know if it might be a ghost after all. 1259 01:07:12.960 --> 01:07:15.800 When Tom got to where he was, he says me, 1260 01:07:15.920 --> 01:07:18.440 and Huck's mighty glad to see you again, and you 1261 01:07:18.519 --> 01:07:21.280 needn't be afeared. We'll tell And if you think it'll 1262 01:07:21.320 --> 01:07:23.480 be safer for you if we don't let on to 1263 01:07:23.559 --> 01:07:26.079 know you, when we run across you, say the word 1264 01:07:26.079 --> 01:07:28.719 and you'll see you can depend on us. And would 1265 01:07:28.800 --> 01:07:30.840 rather cut our hands off than get you into the 1266 01:07:30.920 --> 01:07:34.400 least little bit of danger. First off, he looked surprised 1267 01:07:34.400 --> 01:07:37.360 to see us, not very glad either, But as Tom 1268 01:07:37.440 --> 01:07:40.199 went on he looked pleasanter and when he was done, 1269 01:07:40.280 --> 01:07:43.400 he smiled and nodded his head several times and made 1270 01:07:43.480 --> 01:07:48.440 signs with his hands and says, gool gool ghoul the 1271 01:07:48.480 --> 01:07:52.000 way beef and dummies does. Just then we see some 1272 01:07:52.079 --> 01:07:54.960 of Steve Nickerson's people coming that lived to other side 1273 01:07:55.000 --> 01:07:58.440 of the prairie. So Tom says, you'd do it elegant. 1274 01:07:58.719 --> 01:08:02.000 I never see anybody do it. You're right. Play it 1275 01:08:02.039 --> 01:08:04.480 on us too, Play it on us same as the others. 1276 01:08:04.800 --> 01:08:07.760 It'll keep you in practice and prevent you making blunders. 1277 01:08:08.199 --> 01:08:10.519 We'll keep away from you and let on. We don't 1278 01:08:10.559 --> 01:08:14.039 know you, but anytime we can be any help you, 1279 01:08:14.199 --> 01:08:18.159 just let us know. Then we loafed along past the Nickersons, 1280 01:08:18.159 --> 01:08:20.159 and of course they asked if that was the new 1281 01:08:20.199 --> 01:08:23.800 stranger yonder, and where'd he come from, and what was 1282 01:08:23.800 --> 01:08:28.119 his name? And which communion was he Baptists or Methodist? 1283 01:08:28.520 --> 01:08:31.760 And which politics Whig or Democrat? And how long is 1284 01:08:31.800 --> 01:08:34.960 he staying and all them other questions that humans always 1285 01:08:35.000 --> 01:08:38.319 ask when a stranger comes and animals does too, but 1286 01:08:38.479 --> 01:08:41.119 Tom said he weren't able to make anything out of 1287 01:08:41.239 --> 01:08:44.760 deef and dumb signs, and the same with googooing. Then 1288 01:08:44.760 --> 01:08:48.159 we watched them go and bullyrag Jake because we was 1289 01:08:48.359 --> 01:08:51.119 pretty uneasy for him. Tom said it would take him 1290 01:08:51.199 --> 01:08:53.359 days to get so he wouldn't forget he was a 1291 01:08:53.439 --> 01:08:56.439 deef and dummy sometimes and speak out before he thought. 1292 01:08:57.039 --> 01:08:59.319 When we had watched long enough to see that Jake 1293 01:08:59.439 --> 01:09:02.399 was getting along all right and working his signs very good, 1294 01:09:02.880 --> 01:09:06.319 we loafed along again, allowing to strike the schoolhouse about 1295 01:09:06.359 --> 01:09:09.920 recess time, which was a three mile tramp. I was 1296 01:09:10.039 --> 01:09:12.840 so disappointed not to hear Jake tell about the row 1297 01:09:12.920 --> 01:09:15.920 and the sycamores and how near he come to getting killed, 1298 01:09:16.039 --> 01:09:18.119 that I couldn't seem to get over it. And Tom 1299 01:09:18.159 --> 01:09:20.600 he felt the same, but said if we was in 1300 01:09:20.720 --> 01:09:23.119 Jake's fix, we would want to go careful and keep 1301 01:09:23.199 --> 01:09:26.600 still and not take any chances. The boys and girls 1302 01:09:26.680 --> 01:09:28.600 was all glad to see us again, and we had 1303 01:09:28.640 --> 01:09:31.760 a real good time all through recess. Coming to school, 1304 01:09:31.800 --> 01:09:34.279 the Henderson boys had come across the new deef and 1305 01:09:34.359 --> 01:09:37.239 dummy and told the rest, so all the scholars was 1306 01:09:37.319 --> 01:09:39.920 chuck full of him and couldn't talk about anything else, 1307 01:09:40.359 --> 01:09:42.199 and was in a sweat to get a sight of him, 1308 01:09:42.199 --> 01:09:44.640 because they hadn't ever seen a deef and dummy in 1309 01:09:44.680 --> 01:09:48.239 their lives, and it made a powerful excitement. Tom said 1310 01:09:48.279 --> 01:09:50.880 it was tough to have to keep mum now, said 1311 01:09:51.000 --> 01:09:52.880 we would be heroes if we could come out and 1312 01:09:53.000 --> 01:09:55.680 tell all we knowed. But after all it was still 1313 01:09:55.760 --> 01:09:58.680 more heroic to keep mum. And weren't two boys and 1314 01:09:58.720 --> 01:10:01.560 a million could do it. That was Tom Sawyer's idea 1315 01:10:01.560 --> 01:10:04.439 about it, and I reckoned there warn't anybody could better it. 1316 01:10:05.760 --> 01:10:10.640 End of chapter eight. Chapter nine finding of Jubiter Dunlop. 1317 01:10:11.920 --> 01:10:14.640 In the next two or three days, dummy, he got 1318 01:10:14.680 --> 01:10:18.840 to be powerful popular. He went associating around with the neighbors, 1319 01:10:19.039 --> 01:10:21.479 and they made much of him, and was proud to 1320 01:10:21.520 --> 01:10:25.199 have such a rattling curiosity among them. They had him 1321 01:10:25.199 --> 01:10:28.079 to breakfast, they had him to dinner, they had him 1322 01:10:28.119 --> 01:10:31.600 to supper. They kept him loaded up with hog and hominy, 1323 01:10:31.720 --> 01:10:34.479 and warn't ever tired staring at him and wondering over 1324 01:10:34.600 --> 01:10:37.600 him and wishing they knowed more about him. He was 1325 01:10:37.640 --> 01:10:41.960 so uncommon and romantic. His signs warn't no good. People 1326 01:10:42.000 --> 01:10:45.159 couldn't understand them, and he probably couldn't himself, But he 1327 01:10:45.239 --> 01:10:47.600 did his sight of good gooing, and so everybody was 1328 01:10:47.640 --> 01:10:51.279 satisfied and admired to hear him go it. He toted 1329 01:10:51.319 --> 01:10:54.279 a piece of slate around and a pencil, and people 1330 01:10:54.319 --> 01:10:57.560 wrote questions on it, and he wrote answers. But there 1331 01:10:57.600 --> 01:11:01.600 warn't anybody could read his writing, but Brace Dunlap. Brace 1332 01:11:01.640 --> 01:11:03.960 said he couldn't read it very good, but he could 1333 01:11:04.039 --> 01:11:06.119 manage to dig out the meaning most of the time, 1334 01:11:06.760 --> 01:11:09.520 he said. Dummy said he belonged a way off somers 1335 01:11:09.560 --> 01:11:12.479 and used to be well off, but got busted by 1336 01:11:12.520 --> 01:11:15.920 swindlers which he had trusted, and was poor now and 1337 01:11:16.000 --> 01:11:19.239 hadn't any way to make a living. Everybody praised Brace 1338 01:11:19.319 --> 01:11:22.159 Dunlap for being so good to that stranger. He let 1339 01:11:22.239 --> 01:11:24.880 him have a little log cabin all to himself and 1340 01:11:25.039 --> 01:11:27.359 had his knittas take care of it and fetch him 1341 01:11:27.399 --> 01:11:30.239 all of it'lls he wanted. Dummy was at our house 1342 01:11:30.319 --> 01:11:33.800 some because old Silas was so afflicted himself these days 1343 01:11:33.840 --> 01:11:36.720 that anybody else that was afflicted was a comfort to him. 1344 01:11:37.319 --> 01:11:39.600 Me and Tom didn't let on that we had knowed 1345 01:11:39.680 --> 01:11:42.000 him before, and he didn't let on that he had 1346 01:11:42.000 --> 01:11:45.720 known us before. The family talked their troubles out before him, 1347 01:11:45.760 --> 01:11:48.680 the same as if he wasn't there, but we reckoned. 1348 01:11:48.680 --> 01:11:50.880 It wasn't any harm for him to hear what they said. 1349 01:11:51.439 --> 01:11:55.279 Generally he didn't seem to notice, but sometimes he did well. 1350 01:11:55.960 --> 01:11:58.680 Two or three days when long and everybody got to 1351 01:11:58.680 --> 01:12:03.039 getting uneasy about Jubiter Dunlap. Everybody was asking everybody if 1352 01:12:03.079 --> 01:12:06.079 they had any idea what had become of him. No, 1353 01:12:06.359 --> 01:12:09.159 they hadn't, they said, And they shook their heads and 1354 01:12:09.479 --> 01:12:13.119 said there was something powerful strange about it. Another and 1355 01:12:13.199 --> 01:12:16.319 another day went by. Then there was a report got 1356 01:12:16.359 --> 01:12:19.600 around that perhaps he was murdered. He'd bet it made 1357 01:12:19.640 --> 01:12:24.560 a big stir. Everybody's tongue was clacking away. After that Saturday, 1358 01:12:24.720 --> 01:12:27.359 two or three gangs turned out and hunted the woods 1359 01:12:27.399 --> 01:12:30.119 to see if they could run across his remainders. Me 1360 01:12:30.199 --> 01:12:33.880 and Tom helped, and it was noble, good times and exciting. 1361 01:12:34.479 --> 01:12:37.039 Tom he was so brim full of it he couldn't 1362 01:12:37.039 --> 01:12:40.279 eat nor rest. He said, if we could find that corpse, 1363 01:12:40.520 --> 01:12:43.359 we would be celebrated and more talked about than if 1364 01:12:43.399 --> 01:12:46.399 we got drowned. The others got tired and give it up, 1365 01:12:46.520 --> 01:12:50.359 but not Tom Sawyer. That warn't his style. Saturday night 1366 01:12:50.399 --> 01:12:53.039 he didn't sleep any hardly trying to think up a plan, 1367 01:12:53.439 --> 01:12:56.239 and towards daylight in the morning he struck it. He 1368 01:12:56.279 --> 01:12:59.720 snaked me out of bed and was all excited and says, quick, 1369 01:13:00.479 --> 01:13:04.520 snatch on your clothes. I've got it, bloodhound. In two 1370 01:13:04.560 --> 01:13:07.199 minutes we was tearin up the river road in the dark, 1371 01:13:07.279 --> 01:13:10.199 towards the village. Old Jeff Hooker had a bloodhound and 1372 01:13:10.319 --> 01:13:13.439 Tom was goin to borrow him. I says, the trail's 1373 01:13:13.479 --> 01:13:16.880 too old, Tom, An, besides, it's rained, you know it 1374 01:13:17.000 --> 01:13:19.720 don't make any difference, Huck. If the body's hid in 1375 01:13:19.800 --> 01:13:22.680 the woods anywhere around, the hound will find it. If 1376 01:13:22.680 --> 01:13:25.600 he's been murdered an buried, they wouldn't bury him deep. 1377 01:13:25.760 --> 01:13:28.439 It ain't likely. An. If the dog goes over the spot, 1378 01:13:28.479 --> 01:13:31.840 he'll send him. Sure, Huck, we're going to be celebrated. 1379 01:13:32.159 --> 01:13:35.640 Sure as you're born. He was just a blazing and 1380 01:13:35.760 --> 01:13:38.359 whenever he got a fire, he was most likely to 1381 01:13:38.399 --> 01:13:41.600 get a fire all over. That was the way this time. 1382 01:13:42.000 --> 01:13:44.600 In two minutes he got it all ciphered out an 1383 01:13:44.680 --> 01:13:47.039 wasn't only just going to find the corpse. No, he 1384 01:13:47.199 --> 01:13:49.319 was going to get on the track of that murderer 1385 01:13:49.520 --> 01:13:52.319 and hunt him down too. And not only that, but 1386 01:13:52.399 --> 01:13:55.359 he was goin to stick to him till well. I says, 1387 01:13:55.680 --> 01:13:58.119 you better find the corpse first. I reckon, that's a 1388 01:13:58.159 --> 01:14:01.399 plenty for today. For all we know, there ain't any corpse, 1389 01:14:01.399 --> 01:14:04.800 and nobody hain't been murdered. That Cuss could have gone 1390 01:14:04.880 --> 01:14:08.800 all summer's and not been killed at all. That graveled him. 1391 01:14:08.840 --> 01:14:11.399 And he says, huck Finn, I never see such a 1392 01:14:11.439 --> 01:14:14.439 person as you to want to spoil everything. As long 1393 01:14:14.479 --> 01:14:17.079 as you can't see anything hopeful in the thing, you 1394 01:14:17.119 --> 01:14:19.960 won't let anybody else. What good can it do you 1395 01:14:20.039 --> 01:14:22.840 to throw cold water on that corpse and get up 1396 01:14:22.880 --> 01:14:26.479 that selfish theory that there ain't been any murder none 1397 01:14:26.520 --> 01:14:28.800 in the world. I don't see how you can act. 1398 01:14:28.840 --> 01:14:31.680 So I wouldn't treat you like that. And you know it. 1399 01:14:31.880 --> 01:14:34.720 Here we've got a noble, good opportunity to make a reputation, 1400 01:14:35.079 --> 01:14:38.640 and I'll go ahead. I says, I'm sorry, and I 1401 01:14:38.720 --> 01:14:42.560 take it all back. I didn't mean nothing, fix it 1402 01:14:42.560 --> 01:14:46.000 any way you wanted. He ain't any consequence to me. 1403 01:14:47.239 --> 01:14:50.359 If he's killed, I'm as glad of it as you are. 1404 01:14:50.680 --> 01:14:53.680 And if I never said anything about being glad, I 1405 01:14:53.720 --> 01:14:57.840 only well, then I'm as sorry as you are. Anyway 1406 01:14:57.880 --> 01:14:59.960 you'd rather have it, that is the way I'd rather 1407 01:15:00.119 --> 01:15:03.920 have it. He there ain't any druthers about it, Huck Finn. 1408 01:15:04.279 --> 01:15:08.239 Nobody said anything about druthers. And as for he forgot 1409 01:15:08.319 --> 01:15:12.279 he was talking and went tramping along studying. He began 1410 01:15:12.359 --> 01:15:14.920 to get excited again, and pretty soon he says, Huck, 1411 01:15:15.560 --> 01:15:18.159 it'll be the bulliest thing that ever happened. If we 1412 01:15:18.279 --> 01:15:21.520 find the body after everybody else has quit looking, and 1413 01:15:21.600 --> 01:15:24.439 then go ahead and hunt up the murderer. It won't 1414 01:15:24.439 --> 01:15:26.880 only be an honor to us, but it'll be an 1415 01:15:26.920 --> 01:15:30.680 honor to Uncle Silas because it was us that done it. 1416 01:15:30.680 --> 01:15:33.039 It'll set him up again, you see, if it don't. 1417 01:15:33.640 --> 01:15:36.479 But oh, Jeff Hooker, he throwed cold water on the 1418 01:15:36.520 --> 01:15:39.119 whole business when we got to his blacksmith's shop and 1419 01:15:39.239 --> 01:15:42.319 told him what we come for. You can take the dog, 1420 01:15:42.600 --> 01:15:45.199 he says, But you ain't a going to find any 1421 01:15:45.199 --> 01:15:49.399 corpse because there ain't any corpse to find. Everybody's quit 1422 01:15:49.479 --> 01:15:52.079 looking and they're right soon as they come to think, 1423 01:15:52.359 --> 01:15:55.199 they know there warn't no corpse. And I'll tell you 1424 01:15:55.239 --> 01:15:58.199 for why what does a person kill another person for? 1425 01:15:58.399 --> 01:16:03.319 Tom Sawyer answer me that? Why? He? Uh? Answer up? 1426 01:16:03.600 --> 01:16:07.199 He ain't no fool. What did he kill him for? Well? 1427 01:16:07.439 --> 01:16:12.279 Sometimes it's for revenge. And wait, one thing at a time. Revenge, 1428 01:16:12.279 --> 01:16:16.720 says you, And right you are. Now whoever had anything again, 1429 01:16:16.800 --> 01:16:20.079 that poor trifling no accountant, who do you reckon would 1430 01:16:20.119 --> 01:16:25.119 want to kill him? That rabbit? Tom was stuck, I reckon. 1431 01:16:25.479 --> 01:16:27.680 He hadn't thought of a person having to have a 1432 01:16:27.800 --> 01:16:31.119 reason for killing a person before, and now he sees 1433 01:16:31.199 --> 01:16:33.840 it warn't likely anybody would have that much of a 1434 01:16:33.920 --> 01:16:37.840 grudge against a lamb like Jupiter Dunlap. The blacksmith says, 1435 01:16:37.920 --> 01:16:41.079 by and bye, the revenge idea won't work. You see, 1436 01:16:41.600 --> 01:16:45.399 Well then what's next? Robbery? But gosh, that must have 1437 01:16:45.600 --> 01:16:49.000 been it Tom, Yes, sir, I reckon, we've struck. At 1438 01:16:49.000 --> 01:16:52.279 this time some feller wanted his Gallas buckles, and so 1439 01:16:52.399 --> 01:16:55.319 he bet it was so funny. He busted out laughing 1440 01:16:55.720 --> 01:16:58.560 and just went on laughing and laughing and laughing till 1441 01:16:58.600 --> 01:17:01.560 he was most dead. And Tom looked so put out 1442 01:17:01.600 --> 01:17:04.359 and cheap that I knowed. He was ashamed he had come, 1443 01:17:04.600 --> 01:17:07.560 and he wished he hadn't, But old Hooker never let 1444 01:17:07.640 --> 01:17:10.199 up on him. He raked up everything a person ever 1445 01:17:10.239 --> 01:17:13.319 could want to kill another person about, and any fool 1446 01:17:13.359 --> 01:17:16.119 could see they didn't any of them fit this case. 1447 01:17:16.479 --> 01:17:18.399 And he just made no end of fun of the 1448 01:17:18.439 --> 01:17:21.279 whole business and of the people that had been hunting 1449 01:17:21.319 --> 01:17:24.800 the body. And he said, if they had had any sense, 1450 01:17:24.880 --> 01:17:27.439 they'd have knowed. The lazy cuss slid out because he 1451 01:17:27.520 --> 01:17:30.720 wanted a loaf and spell after all this work. He'll 1452 01:17:30.800 --> 01:17:33.800 come pottering back in a couple of weeks and then 1453 01:17:33.960 --> 01:17:37.520 how you fellers feel, But laws bless you take the 1454 01:17:37.600 --> 01:17:41.319 dog and go and hunt his remainders, do Tom? Then 1455 01:17:41.359 --> 01:17:43.960 he busted out and had another of them forty row 1456 01:17:44.079 --> 01:17:47.560 laughs of his. Tom couldn't back down after all this, 1457 01:17:47.800 --> 01:17:51.760 so he said, all right, unchain him and the blacksmith 1458 01:17:51.800 --> 01:17:54.560 done it, and we started home and left that old 1459 01:17:54.600 --> 01:17:58.279 man laughing. Yet it was a lovely dog. There ain't 1460 01:17:58.319 --> 01:18:01.239 any dog that's got a lovelier position and a bloodhound, 1461 01:18:01.520 --> 01:18:04.520 and this one knowed us and liked us. He capered 1462 01:18:04.560 --> 01:18:07.720 and raced around, ever so friendly and powerful, glad to 1463 01:18:07.720 --> 01:18:10.399 be free and have a holiday. But Tom was so 1464 01:18:10.600 --> 01:18:13.119 cut up he couldn't take any interest in him, and 1465 01:18:13.199 --> 01:18:15.760 said he wished he'd stopped and thought a minute before 1466 01:18:15.800 --> 01:18:18.640 he ever started on such a fool Errand he said, 1467 01:18:18.680 --> 01:18:22.159 old Jeff Hooker would tell everybody, and we'd never hear 1468 01:18:22.239 --> 01:18:25.960 the last of it. So we loafed along home down 1469 01:18:26.000 --> 01:18:29.880 the back lanes, feeling pretty glum and not talking. When 1470 01:18:29.920 --> 01:18:32.560 we was passing the far corner of our tobacco field, 1471 01:18:32.600 --> 01:18:35.399 we heard the dog set up a long howl in there, 1472 01:18:36.000 --> 01:18:38.239 and we went to the place and he was scratching 1473 01:18:38.279 --> 01:18:40.640 the ground with all his might and ever now and 1474 01:18:40.760 --> 01:18:44.039 then canting up his head sideways and fetching another howl. 1475 01:18:44.880 --> 01:18:47.560 It was a long square, the shape of a grave. 1476 01:18:48.279 --> 01:18:50.399 The rain had made it sink down and show the 1477 01:18:50.399 --> 01:18:53.640 shape the minute we come and stood there, we looked 1478 01:18:53.640 --> 01:18:56.039 at one another and never said a word. When the 1479 01:18:56.119 --> 01:18:59.399 dog had dug down only a few inches, he grabbed 1480 01:18:59.439 --> 01:19:03.319 somethinulled it up, and it was an arm and a sleeve. 1481 01:19:04.359 --> 01:19:07.319 Tom kind of gasped out and says, come away, huck, 1482 01:19:07.520 --> 01:19:11.239 it's found. I just felt awful. We struck for the 1483 01:19:11.319 --> 01:19:13.880 road and fetched. The first men that come along. They 1484 01:19:13.960 --> 01:19:16.479 got a spade at the crib and dug out the body. 1485 01:19:16.479 --> 01:19:19.520 And you never see such an excitement. You couldn't make 1486 01:19:19.600 --> 01:19:22.199 anything out of the face, but you didn't need to. 1487 01:19:22.560 --> 01:19:27.319 Everybody said, poor Jubiter, it's his clothes to the last rag. 1488 01:19:28.159 --> 01:19:30.439 Some rushed off to spread the news and tell the 1489 01:19:30.600 --> 01:19:32.880 justice of the peace and have an inquest, and me 1490 01:19:33.000 --> 01:19:35.800 and Tom lit out for the house. Tom was all 1491 01:19:35.840 --> 01:19:38.800 afire and most out of breath when we come tearing 1492 01:19:38.880 --> 01:19:41.560 in where Uncle Silas and that Sally and Benny was. 1493 01:19:42.079 --> 01:19:45.720 Tom sung out. Me and Hucks found Jubiter Dunlap's corpse 1494 01:19:45.800 --> 01:19:49.399 all by ourselves with a bloodhound, after everybody else had 1495 01:19:49.479 --> 01:19:52.319 quit hunting and give it up. And if it hadn't 1496 01:19:52.359 --> 01:19:55.560 been for us, it never would have been found. And 1497 01:19:55.760 --> 01:19:58.600 he was murdered too. They'd done it with a club 1498 01:19:58.680 --> 01:20:01.119 or something like that. I'm going to start in and 1499 01:20:01.159 --> 01:20:03.920 find the murderer next, and I bet i'll do it. 1500 01:20:04.640 --> 01:20:08.039 Aunt Sally and Benny sprung up, pale and astonished. But 1501 01:20:08.199 --> 01:20:11.159 Uncle Silas fell right forward out of his chair onto 1502 01:20:11.199 --> 01:20:15.840 the floor and groans out, oh my god, you've found 1503 01:20:15.960 --> 01:20:22.479 him now. End of chapter nine chapter ten, The arrest 1504 01:20:22.560 --> 01:20:28.239 of Uncle Silas. Them awful words froze us solid. We 1505 01:20:28.279 --> 01:20:31.520 couldn't move hand or foot for as much as half 1506 01:20:31.560 --> 01:20:35.319 a minute. Then we kind of come to and lifted 1507 01:20:35.319 --> 01:20:37.680 the old man up and got him into his chair, 1508 01:20:38.359 --> 01:20:41.479 and Benny petted him and kissed him and tried to 1509 01:20:41.560 --> 01:20:44.840 comfort him. And poor old Aunt Sally she done the same. 1510 01:20:45.319 --> 01:20:49.399 But poor things, they was so broke up and scared 1511 01:20:49.439 --> 01:20:52.600 and knocked out of their right minds that they didn't 1512 01:20:52.640 --> 01:20:56.319 hardly know what they was about. With Tom, it was awful. 1513 01:20:56.800 --> 01:21:00.359 It most petrified him to think maybe he got his 1514 01:21:00.479 --> 01:21:03.479 uncle into a thousand times more trouble than ever, and 1515 01:21:03.600 --> 01:21:06.520 maybe it wouldn't ever happened if he hadn't been so 1516 01:21:06.760 --> 01:21:10.279 ambitious to get celebrated and let the corpse alone the 1517 01:21:10.279 --> 01:21:13.359 way the others done. But pretty soon he sort of 1518 01:21:13.399 --> 01:21:17.079 come to himself again and says, Uncle Silas, don't you 1519 01:21:17.159 --> 01:21:20.359 say another word like that. It's dangerous and there ain't 1520 01:21:20.359 --> 01:21:23.319 a shatter of truth in it. Aunt Sally and Benny 1521 01:21:23.439 --> 01:21:25.840 was thankful to hear him say that, and they said 1522 01:21:25.840 --> 01:21:28.359 the same. But the old man he wagged his head, 1523 01:21:28.399 --> 01:21:32.680 sorrowful and hopeless, and the tears run down his face, 1524 01:21:32.720 --> 01:21:38.199 and he says, no, I'd done it, poor Jubiter, I'd 1525 01:21:38.239 --> 01:21:41.680 done it. It was dreadful to hear him say it. 1526 01:21:42.319 --> 01:21:45.159 Then he went on and told about it, and said 1527 01:21:45.159 --> 01:21:48.680 it happened to day me and Tom come along about sundown. 1528 01:21:49.199 --> 01:21:52.279 He said, Jubiter pestered him and aggravated him till he 1529 01:21:52.359 --> 01:21:54.960 was so mad he just sort of lost his mind 1530 01:21:55.239 --> 01:21:57.520 and grabbed up a stick and hit him over the 1531 01:21:57.560 --> 01:22:00.880 head with all his might, and Jubiter dropped in his tracks. 1532 01:22:01.239 --> 01:22:03.960 Then he was scared and sorry, and got down on 1533 01:22:04.039 --> 01:22:07.119 his knees and lifted his head up and begged him 1534 01:22:07.119 --> 01:22:10.119 to speak and say he wasn't dead. And before long 1535 01:22:10.159 --> 01:22:12.600 he come too, And when he see who it was 1536 01:22:12.680 --> 01:22:15.600 holding his head, he jumped like he was most scared 1537 01:22:15.640 --> 01:22:18.000 to death, and cleared the fence and tore into the 1538 01:22:18.000 --> 01:22:21.039 woods and was gone. So he hoped he wasn't hurt 1539 01:22:21.079 --> 01:22:25.039 by but laws, he says, it was only just fear 1540 01:22:25.119 --> 01:22:28.079 that gave him that last little spurt of strength, And 1541 01:22:28.199 --> 01:22:30.760 of course it soon played out, and he laid down 1542 01:22:30.760 --> 01:22:33.239 in the bush and there wasn't anybody to help him, 1543 01:22:33.640 --> 01:22:37.479 and he died. Then the old man cried and grieved 1544 01:22:37.840 --> 01:22:39.600 and said he was a murderer and the mark of 1545 01:22:39.680 --> 01:22:42.920 Cain was on him, and he had disgraced his family 1546 01:22:42.960 --> 01:22:45.479 and was going to be found out an hung. But 1547 01:22:45.600 --> 01:22:49.239 Tom said, no, you ain't goin to be found out. 1548 01:22:49.800 --> 01:22:54.239 You didn't kill him. One lick wouldn't kill him. Somebody 1549 01:22:54.279 --> 01:22:58.199 else done it? Oh, yes, he says, I'd done it. 1550 01:22:58.840 --> 01:23:02.720 Nobody else who wells had anything against him? Who else 1551 01:23:02.800 --> 01:23:06.439 could have anything against him? He looked up kind of 1552 01:23:06.600 --> 01:23:09.279 like he hoped some of us could mention somebody that 1553 01:23:09.359 --> 01:23:12.319 could have a grudge against that harmless no count. But 1554 01:23:12.359 --> 01:23:15.840 of course it warn't no use he had us. We 1555 01:23:15.880 --> 01:23:18.880 couldn't say a word. He noticed that, and he saddened 1556 01:23:18.960 --> 01:23:21.840 down again. And I never see a face so miserable 1557 01:23:21.840 --> 01:23:25.079 and so pitiful to see. Tom had a sudden idea 1558 01:23:25.119 --> 01:23:30.119 and says, but hold on, somebody buried him? Now? Who 1559 01:23:30.880 --> 01:23:34.000 he shut off? Sudden? I knowed the reason. It gave 1560 01:23:34.079 --> 01:23:36.399 me the cold shudders when he said them words, because 1561 01:23:36.600 --> 01:23:40.560 right away I remembered about us seeing Uncle Silas prowling 1562 01:23:40.640 --> 01:23:43.319 around with a long handled shovel away in the night 1563 01:23:43.439 --> 01:23:47.159 that night. And I knowed Benny's seeing him too, because 1564 01:23:47.319 --> 01:23:50.399 she was talking about it one day. The minute Tom 1565 01:23:50.479 --> 01:23:52.920 shut off, he changed the subject and went to begging 1566 01:23:53.000 --> 01:23:55.520 Uncle Silas to keep mum, And the rest of us 1567 01:23:55.560 --> 01:23:59.520 done the same, and said he must, and said it 1568 01:23:59.560 --> 01:24:02.359 wasn't his business to tell on himself, and if he 1569 01:24:02.479 --> 01:24:05.720 kept mum, no one would ever know. But if it 1570 01:24:05.840 --> 01:24:08.880 was found out and any harm come to him, it 1571 01:24:08.880 --> 01:24:11.720 would break the family's hearts and kill them, and yet 1572 01:24:11.800 --> 01:24:15.439 never do anybody any good. So at last he promised, 1573 01:24:16.119 --> 01:24:18.960 We was all of us more comfortable then, and went 1574 01:24:19.000 --> 01:24:21.439 to work. To cheer up the old man. We told 1575 01:24:21.479 --> 01:24:23.520 him all he'd got to do was to keep still, 1576 01:24:23.960 --> 01:24:26.319 and it wouldn't be long till the whole thing would 1577 01:24:26.319 --> 01:24:29.800 blow over and be for God. We all said, there 1578 01:24:29.840 --> 01:24:33.680 wouldn't anybody ever suspect Uncle Silas, nor ever dream of 1579 01:24:33.720 --> 01:24:36.520 such a thing, he being so good and kind and 1580 01:24:36.640 --> 01:24:40.520 having such a good character. And Tom says, cordial and hearty, 1581 01:24:40.600 --> 01:24:43.760 he says, why just look at it a minute. Just 1582 01:24:43.840 --> 01:24:48.279 consider here is Uncle Silas, all these years, a preacher 1583 01:24:48.600 --> 01:24:52.319 at his own expense, all these years, doing good with 1584 01:24:52.439 --> 01:24:55.279 all his might, and every way he can think of, 1585 01:24:55.720 --> 01:24:59.479 at his own expense, all the time, always been loved 1586 01:24:59.520 --> 01:25:04.479 by every Anne respected, always been peaceable and minding his 1587 01:25:04.560 --> 01:25:08.279 own business. The very last man in this whole district 1588 01:25:08.479 --> 01:25:12.239 to touch a person, and everybody knows it. Suspect him. 1589 01:25:12.720 --> 01:25:16.319 Why it ain't any more possible than by thirty of 1590 01:25:16.399 --> 01:25:20.119 the State of Arkansas. I arrest you for the murder 1591 01:25:20.119 --> 01:25:23.640 of Jupiter Dunlap, shouts the sheriff at the door. It 1592 01:25:23.800 --> 01:25:27.920 was awful. Aunt Sally and Benny flung themselves at Uncle Silas, 1593 01:25:27.960 --> 01:25:31.319 screaming and crying and hugged him and hung to him, 1594 01:25:31.600 --> 01:25:34.640 and Aunt Sally said go away. She wouldn't ever give 1595 01:25:34.720 --> 01:25:37.840 him up. They shouldn't have him. And the niggers they come, 1596 01:25:37.880 --> 01:25:41.039 crowding and crying to the door, and well, I couldn't 1597 01:25:41.119 --> 01:25:43.680 stand it. It was enough to break a person's heart, 1598 01:25:43.800 --> 01:25:46.439 so I got out. They took him up to the 1599 01:25:46.439 --> 01:25:49.119 little one horse jail in the village, and we all 1600 01:25:49.159 --> 01:25:52.399 went along to tell him goodbye. And Tom was feeling 1601 01:25:52.479 --> 01:25:55.560 elegant and says to me, we'll have a most noble 1602 01:25:55.600 --> 01:25:58.560 good time and heaps of danger some dark night getting 1603 01:25:58.640 --> 01:26:01.399 him out of there, huck, and it'll be talked about 1604 01:26:01.439 --> 01:26:04.600 everywheres an we will be celebrated. But the old man 1605 01:26:04.880 --> 01:26:07.479 busted that scheme up. The minute he whispered to him 1606 01:26:07.520 --> 01:26:10.279 about it, he said, no, it was his duty to 1607 01:26:10.319 --> 01:26:12.920 stand whatever the law done to him, and he would 1608 01:26:13.000 --> 01:26:15.840 stick to the jail plumb through to the end, even 1609 01:26:15.840 --> 01:26:19.119 if there warn't no door to it. It disappointed Tom 1610 01:26:19.159 --> 01:26:21.960 and graveled him a good deal, but he had to 1611 01:26:21.960 --> 01:26:24.840 put up with it. But he felt responsible and bound 1612 01:26:24.840 --> 01:26:27.399 to get his uncle Silas free. And he told Aunt 1613 01:26:27.439 --> 01:26:30.840 Sally the last thing not to worry, because he was 1614 01:26:30.880 --> 01:26:33.279 going to turn in and work night and day and 1615 01:26:33.399 --> 01:26:36.720 beat this game and fetch Uncle Silas out innocent. And 1616 01:26:36.800 --> 01:26:39.079 she was very loving to him and thanked him and 1617 01:26:39.159 --> 01:26:41.840 said she knowed he would do his very best. And 1618 01:26:41.920 --> 01:26:43.920 she told us to help Benny take care of the 1619 01:26:43.960 --> 01:26:46.560 house and the children. And then we had a good 1620 01:26:46.600 --> 01:26:49.359 bye cry all around, and went back to the farm 1621 01:26:49.840 --> 01:26:52.319 and left her there to live with the jailer's wife 1622 01:26:52.319 --> 01:26:56.239 a month till the trial. In October. End of chapter ten, 1623 01:26:57.079 --> 01:27:02.760 chapter eleven, Tom sawyer discovers the murderers. Well, that was 1624 01:27:02.840 --> 01:27:06.920 a hard month on us all. Poor Benny. She kept 1625 01:27:07.000 --> 01:27:09.119 up the best she could, and me and Tom tried 1626 01:27:09.159 --> 01:27:12.079 to keep things cheerful there at the house, but it 1627 01:27:12.159 --> 01:27:15.199 kind of went for nothing. As you may say. It 1628 01:27:15.319 --> 01:27:17.640 was the same up at the jail. We went up 1629 01:27:17.720 --> 01:27:21.039 every day to see the old people. But it was awful, 1630 01:27:21.119 --> 01:27:24.439 dreary because the old man warn't sleeping much and was 1631 01:27:24.520 --> 01:27:27.960 walking in his sleep considerable, and so he got to 1632 01:27:28.159 --> 01:27:32.079 look in fact and miserable, and his mind got shaky, 1633 01:27:32.520 --> 01:27:34.960 and we all got afraid his troubles would break him 1634 01:27:35.000 --> 01:27:37.920 down and kill him. And whenever we tried to persuade 1635 01:27:38.000 --> 01:27:41.359 him to feel cheerfuler, he only shook his head and said, 1636 01:27:41.720 --> 01:27:44.359 if we only knowed what it was to carry around 1637 01:27:44.399 --> 01:27:47.359 a murderer's load in your heart, we wouldn't talk that way. 1638 01:27:48.319 --> 01:27:51.359 Tom and all of us kept telling him it wasn't murder, 1639 01:27:51.760 --> 01:27:55.119 but just accidental killing, but it never made any difference. 1640 01:27:55.560 --> 01:27:58.279 It was murder, and he wouldn't have it any other way. 1641 01:27:58.760 --> 01:28:02.079 He actively begun to out playing and squared towards trial 1642 01:28:02.159 --> 01:28:04.840 time and acknowledged that he tried to kill the man. 1643 01:28:05.439 --> 01:28:09.399 Why that was awful, you know, it made things seem 1644 01:28:09.439 --> 01:28:12.479 fifty times as dreadful, and there weren't no more comfort 1645 01:28:12.520 --> 01:28:15.279 for Aunt Sally and Benny. But he promised he wouldn't 1646 01:28:15.319 --> 01:28:17.960 say a word about his murder when others was around, 1647 01:28:18.359 --> 01:28:21.399 and we was glad of that. Tom Sawyer racked the 1648 01:28:21.479 --> 01:28:24.239 head off of himself all that month trying to plan 1649 01:28:24.359 --> 01:28:27.239 some way out for Uncle Silas, and many as the night. 1650 01:28:27.359 --> 01:28:29.920 He kept me up most all night with this kind 1651 01:28:29.960 --> 01:28:33.079 of tiresome work. But he couldn't seem to get on 1652 01:28:33.159 --> 01:28:36.039 the right track. No way. As for me, I reckoned 1653 01:28:36.199 --> 01:28:38.319 a body might as well give it up. It all 1654 01:28:38.359 --> 01:28:42.119 looked so blue, and I was so downhearted. But he wouldn't. 1655 01:28:42.600 --> 01:28:45.359 He stuck to the business right along and went on 1656 01:28:45.560 --> 01:28:49.680 planning and thinking and ransacking his head. So at last 1657 01:28:49.720 --> 01:28:53.239 the trial come on towards the middle of October, and 1658 01:28:53.319 --> 01:28:56.079 we was all in the court. The place was jammed. 1659 01:28:56.079 --> 01:28:59.319 Of course, poor old Uncle Silas he looked more like 1660 01:28:59.399 --> 01:29:02.039 a dead person than a live one. His eyes were 1661 01:29:02.119 --> 01:29:06.199 so hollow, and he looked so thin and so mournful. Benny, 1662 01:29:06.279 --> 01:29:08.119 she sat on one side of him, and Aunt Sally 1663 01:29:08.199 --> 01:29:10.720 on the other, and they had veils on, and was 1664 01:29:10.760 --> 01:29:14.319 full of trouble. But Tom he set by our lawyer 1665 01:29:14.600 --> 01:29:17.720 and had his finger in everywheres. Of course, the lawyer 1666 01:29:17.800 --> 01:29:20.640 let him, and the judge led him. He most took 1667 01:29:20.640 --> 01:29:23.680 the business out of the lawyer's hands sometimes, which was 1668 01:29:23.880 --> 01:29:26.560 well enough, because that was only a mud turtle of 1669 01:29:26.600 --> 01:29:29.560 a back settlement lawyer, and didn't know enough to come 1670 01:29:29.560 --> 01:29:32.720 in when it rains. As the saying is, they swore 1671 01:29:32.800 --> 01:29:35.760 in the jury. And then the lawyer for the prostitution 1672 01:29:36.119 --> 01:29:39.520 got up and begun. He made a terrible speech against 1673 01:29:39.520 --> 01:29:42.880 the old man that made him moan and groan, and 1674 01:29:43.000 --> 01:29:46.439 made Benny and Aunt Sally cry. The way he told 1675 01:29:46.479 --> 01:29:49.520 about the murder kind of knocked us all stupid. It 1676 01:29:49.600 --> 01:29:52.439 was so different from the old man's tail. He said 1677 01:29:52.520 --> 01:29:55.279 he was going to prove that Uncle Silas was seen 1678 01:29:55.439 --> 01:29:58.920 to kill Jubiter Dunlap by two good witnesses, and done 1679 01:29:58.920 --> 01:30:01.720 it deliberate, and said he was going to kill him 1680 01:30:01.760 --> 01:30:04.119 the very minute he hit him with the club, and 1681 01:30:04.239 --> 01:30:07.279 they seen him hide Jubiter in the bushes, and they 1682 01:30:07.359 --> 01:30:11.039 seen that Jubiter was stone dead, and said Uncle Silas 1683 01:30:11.079 --> 01:30:14.279 come later and lugged Jubiter down into the tobacco field. 1684 01:30:14.640 --> 01:30:17.560 And two men seen him do it, and said Uncle 1685 01:30:17.600 --> 01:30:20.880 Silas turned out away in the night and buried Jubiter, 1686 01:30:21.199 --> 01:30:24.479 and a man seen him at it. I says to myself, 1687 01:30:24.680 --> 01:30:27.720 poor old uncle Silas has been lying about it, because 1688 01:30:27.760 --> 01:30:30.239 he reckoned nobody's seen him, and he couldn't bear to 1689 01:30:30.279 --> 01:30:33.640 break Aunt Sally's heart and Benny's, and right he was. 1690 01:30:34.359 --> 01:30:37.359 As for me, I would allied the same way, and 1691 01:30:37.520 --> 01:30:40.279 so would anybody that had any feeling to save them 1692 01:30:40.319 --> 01:30:45.680 such misery and sorrow which they warn't no ways responsible for. Well, 1693 01:30:45.880 --> 01:30:48.760 it made our lawyer look pretty sick, and it knocked 1694 01:30:48.800 --> 01:30:51.560 Tom silly too for a little spell. But then he 1695 01:30:51.680 --> 01:30:54.680 braced up and let on that he warn't worried, but 1696 01:30:54.760 --> 01:30:57.520 I knowed he was all the same, and the people 1697 01:30:58.159 --> 01:31:01.840 my But it made us stir amongst them. And when 1698 01:31:01.840 --> 01:31:04.520 that lawyer was done telling the jury what he was 1699 01:31:04.600 --> 01:31:07.359 going to prove, he sat down and begun to work 1700 01:31:07.399 --> 01:31:10.560 his witnesses. First, he called a lot of them to 1701 01:31:10.600 --> 01:31:13.359 show that there was bad blood betwixt Uncle Silas and 1702 01:31:13.399 --> 01:31:16.199 the diseased. And they told how they had heard Uncle 1703 01:31:16.239 --> 01:31:19.279 Silas threaten the diseased at one time and another, and 1704 01:31:19.359 --> 01:31:21.880 how it got worse and worse, and everybody was talking 1705 01:31:21.960 --> 01:31:24.600 about it, and how diseased got afraid of his life, 1706 01:31:24.960 --> 01:31:27.239 and told two or three of them he was certain 1707 01:31:27.359 --> 01:31:29.439 Uncle Silas would up and kill him some time or 1708 01:31:29.479 --> 01:31:33.600 another Tom and our lawyer asked them some questions, but 1709 01:31:33.680 --> 01:31:36.199 it warn't no use. They stuck to what they said. 1710 01:31:37.000 --> 01:31:40.199 Next they called up lem Beebe and he took the stand. 1711 01:31:40.600 --> 01:31:43.239 It come into my mind then, how Limb and Jim 1712 01:31:43.359 --> 01:31:46.800 Lane had come along talking that time about borrowing a 1713 01:31:46.880 --> 01:31:50.199 dog or something from Jubiter Dunlap, and that brought up 1714 01:31:50.239 --> 01:31:53.520 the blackberries and the lantern, and that brought up Bill 1715 01:31:53.600 --> 01:31:57.279 and Jack Withers, and how they passed by talking about 1716 01:31:57.319 --> 01:32:00.680 a nigger stealing Uncle Silas's corn, and that fetched up 1717 01:32:00.720 --> 01:32:03.159 our old ghosts had come along about the same time 1718 01:32:03.199 --> 01:32:06.279 and scared us so. And here he was, too, and 1719 01:32:06.359 --> 01:32:09.479 a privileged character on accounts of his being deef and 1720 01:32:09.560 --> 01:32:12.159 dumb and a stranger. And they had fixed him a 1721 01:32:12.239 --> 01:32:15.239 chair inside the railing where he could cross his legs 1722 01:32:15.239 --> 01:32:17.960 and be comfortable, whilst the other people was all in 1723 01:32:18.039 --> 01:32:21.359 a jam so they couldn't hardly breathe. So it all 1724 01:32:21.399 --> 01:32:23.760 come back to me just the way it was that day, 1725 01:32:24.199 --> 01:32:26.720 and it made me mournful to think how pleasant it 1726 01:32:26.880 --> 01:32:31.039 was up to then, and how miserable ever since lem 1727 01:32:31.159 --> 01:32:36.560 Beebe sworn said I was coming along that day tewod 1728 01:32:36.720 --> 01:32:40.680 September and Jim Lane was with me, and it was 1729 01:32:40.880 --> 01:32:45.800 towards sundown, and we heard loud talk like quarreling, and 1730 01:32:45.840 --> 01:32:49.439 we was very close only the hazel bushes between that's 1731 01:32:49.439 --> 01:32:51.840 a long the fence, and we heard a voice say, 1732 01:32:52.479 --> 01:32:55.640 I told you more than once, I'd kill you, and 1733 01:32:55.880 --> 01:32:58.880 knowed it was this prisoner's voice. And then we see 1734 01:32:58.880 --> 01:33:01.800 a club come up the bushes and down out of 1735 01:33:01.840 --> 01:33:05.479 sight again, and heard a smashing thump and then a 1736 01:33:05.560 --> 01:33:08.920 groan or two, and then we croped soft to where 1737 01:33:08.960 --> 01:33:12.399 we could see, and there laid Jubiter Dunlap dead, and 1738 01:33:12.479 --> 01:33:16.000 this prisoner standing over him with the club. And the next 1739 01:33:16.159 --> 01:33:18.600 he hauled the dead man into a clump of bushes 1740 01:33:18.600 --> 01:33:21.640 and hid him, and then we stooped low to be 1741 01:33:21.720 --> 01:33:26.319 cut of sight. Man got away. Well, it was awful. 1742 01:33:27.039 --> 01:33:29.439 It kind of froze everybody's blood to hear it. And 1743 01:33:29.520 --> 01:33:32.079 the house was most as still whilst he was telling it, 1744 01:33:32.119 --> 01:33:35.119 as if there weren't nobody in it. And when he 1745 01:33:35.279 --> 01:33:38.319 was done, you could hear them gasp and sigh all 1746 01:33:38.479 --> 01:33:41.159 over the house and look at one another the same 1747 01:33:41.199 --> 01:33:45.079 as to say, he eat it perfectly terrible. He did 1748 01:33:45.119 --> 01:33:49.760 it awful. Now happened a thing that astonished me. All 1749 01:33:49.840 --> 01:33:53.000 the time the first witnesses was proving the bad blood 1750 01:33:53.039 --> 01:33:56.000 and the threats and all that Tom Sawyer was alive 1751 01:33:56.039 --> 01:33:58.760 and laying for them, And the minute they was through, 1752 01:33:59.199 --> 01:34:01.760 he went for them and done his level best to 1753 01:34:01.840 --> 01:34:05.960 catch them and lies an spy their testimony. But now, 1754 01:34:06.279 --> 01:34:09.880 how different when lemb first begun to talk and never 1755 01:34:09.960 --> 01:34:13.399 said anything about speaking to Jubiter or trying to borrow 1756 01:34:13.399 --> 01:34:15.640 a dog off of him, he was all alive and 1757 01:34:15.840 --> 01:34:18.279 laying for Lemb and you could see he was getting 1758 01:34:18.319 --> 01:34:21.479 ready to cross question him to death pretty soon. And 1759 01:34:21.560 --> 01:34:23.399 then I judged him and me he would go on 1760 01:34:23.560 --> 01:34:26.039 to stand by and by and tell what we heard 1761 01:34:26.119 --> 01:34:29.479 him and Jim Lane say. But the next time I 1762 01:34:29.520 --> 01:34:32.800 looked at Tom, I got the cold shivers. Why he 1763 01:34:32.960 --> 01:34:36.279 was in the brownest study you ever see, miles an 1764 01:34:36.560 --> 01:34:40.720 miles away. He warn't hearing a word lem Beebe was saying. 1765 01:34:41.279 --> 01:34:43.119 And when he got through, he was still in that 1766 01:34:43.199 --> 01:34:46.720 brown study just the same. Our lawyer joggled him, and 1767 01:34:46.800 --> 01:34:49.880 then he looked up, startled and says, take the witness 1768 01:34:49.880 --> 01:34:53.359 if you want him, let me alone. I want to think. Well, 1769 01:34:53.479 --> 01:34:57.039 that beat me. I couldn't understand it, and Benny and 1770 01:34:57.119 --> 01:35:00.399 her mother, Oh, they looked sick. They was so true troubled. 1771 01:35:00.960 --> 01:35:03.199 They shoved their veils to one side and tried to 1772 01:35:03.199 --> 01:35:05.600 get his eye, but it warn't any use. And I 1773 01:35:05.600 --> 01:35:08.520 couldn't get his eye either. So the mud turtle he 1774 01:35:08.680 --> 01:35:11.840 tackled the witness, but it didn't amount to nothing, and 1775 01:35:11.880 --> 01:35:14.319 he made a mess of it. Then they called up 1776 01:35:14.399 --> 01:35:17.239 Jim Lane and he told the very same story over 1777 01:35:17.279 --> 01:35:20.479 again exact. Tom never listened to this one at all, 1778 01:35:20.840 --> 01:35:24.720 but set there thinking and thinking miles and miles away. 1779 01:35:25.359 --> 01:35:27.960 So the mud turtle went in alone again and come 1780 01:35:28.000 --> 01:35:31.039 out just as flat as he done before. The lawyer 1781 01:35:31.079 --> 01:35:35.159 for the prostitution looked very comfortable, but the judge looked disgusted. 1782 01:35:35.680 --> 01:35:39.239 You see, Tom was just the same as a regular lawyer, nearly, 1783 01:35:39.560 --> 01:35:43.560 because it was Arkansas law for a prisoner to choose anybody. 1784 01:35:43.640 --> 01:35:46.640 He wanted to help his lawyer, and Tom had had 1785 01:35:46.760 --> 01:35:49.600 Uncle Silas shove him into the case, and now he 1786 01:35:49.800 --> 01:35:52.119 was botching it. And you could see the judge didn't 1787 01:35:52.159 --> 01:35:54.960 like it much. All that the mud turtle got out 1788 01:35:55.000 --> 01:35:58.840 of lem and Jim was this. He asked them, why 1789 01:35:59.079 --> 01:36:02.600 didn't you go and tell what you saw. We was 1790 01:36:02.880 --> 01:36:06.079 afraid we would get mixed up in it ourselves, and 1791 01:36:06.119 --> 01:36:08.920 we was just starting down the river hunting for all 1792 01:36:09.000 --> 01:36:11.800 the week besides. But as soon as we come back, 1793 01:36:11.840 --> 01:36:14.800 we found out they'd been searching for the body. So 1794 01:36:15.159 --> 01:36:17.560 then we went and told Brace Dunlap all about it. 1795 01:36:18.159 --> 01:36:22.680 When was that Saturday night, September ninth. The judge he 1796 01:36:22.760 --> 01:36:26.680 spoke up and says, mister Sheriff, arrest these two witnesses 1797 01:36:26.800 --> 01:36:30.720 on suspicions of being accessionary after the fact to the murder. 1798 01:36:31.199 --> 01:36:34.079 The lawyer for the prostitution jumps up all excited and says, 1799 01:36:34.319 --> 01:36:38.760 your honor, I protest against this extraordinary sit down, says 1800 01:36:38.800 --> 01:36:42.319 the judge, pulling his bowie and laying it on his pulpit. 1801 01:36:42.680 --> 01:36:45.880 I beg you to respect the court. So he done it, 1802 01:36:46.279 --> 01:36:51.159 and he called Bill Withers. Bill Withers sworn said, I 1803 01:36:51.600 --> 01:36:55.760 was coming along about sundown Saturday, September seventh by the 1804 01:36:55.800 --> 01:36:59.199 prisoner's field, and my brother Jack was with me, and 1805 01:36:59.319 --> 01:37:02.560 we seen a man toting off something heavy on his back, 1806 01:37:02.880 --> 01:37:06.520 and allowed it was a nigga stealing corn. Couldn't see distinct. 1807 01:37:07.000 --> 01:37:10.039 Next we made out that it was one man carrying another, 1808 01:37:10.479 --> 01:37:13.079 and the way it hung so kind of limp, we 1809 01:37:13.199 --> 01:37:15.920 judged it was somebody that was drunk. And by the 1810 01:37:15.960 --> 01:37:19.159 man's walk, we said it was Parson Silas, and we 1811 01:37:19.279 --> 01:37:21.920 judged he had found Sam Cooper drunk in the road, 1812 01:37:22.279 --> 01:37:25.520 which he was always trying to reform him, and was 1813 01:37:25.560 --> 01:37:29.119 toting him out of danger. He made the people shiver 1814 01:37:29.239 --> 01:37:31.800 to think of poor old Uncle Silas toting off the 1815 01:37:31.880 --> 01:37:35.079 diseased down to the place in his tobacco field where 1816 01:37:35.119 --> 01:37:38.119 the dog dug up the body. But there warn't much 1817 01:37:38.119 --> 01:37:42.640 sympathy around amongst the faces. And I heard one cuss says, 1818 01:37:42.640 --> 01:37:46.439 the coldest blooded work I ever struck, lugging and murdered 1819 01:37:46.479 --> 01:37:49.119 man around like that, and going to bury him like 1820 01:37:49.199 --> 01:37:52.800 an animal, and him a preacher at that tom he 1821 01:37:52.920 --> 01:37:56.359 went on thinking and never took no notice. So our 1822 01:37:56.439 --> 01:37:58.800 lawyer took the witness and done the best he could, 1823 01:37:59.159 --> 01:38:02.680 and it was plenty poor enough. Then Jack Withers he 1824 01:38:02.800 --> 01:38:05.840 come on the stand and told the same tale, just 1825 01:38:05.920 --> 01:38:09.680 like Bill done. And after him comes Brace Dunlap, and 1826 01:38:09.760 --> 01:38:13.319 he was looking very mournful and most crying, And there 1827 01:38:13.399 --> 01:38:16.199 was a rustle and a stir all around, and everybody 1828 01:38:16.239 --> 01:38:19.119 got ready to listen, and lots of the women folks said, 1829 01:38:19.359 --> 01:38:23.439 poor critter, poor critter, and you could see many of 1830 01:38:23.479 --> 01:38:27.840 them wiping their eyes. Brace Dunlap swore and said, I 1831 01:38:28.039 --> 01:38:31.960 was in considerable trouble a long time about my poor brother, 1832 01:38:32.279 --> 01:38:34.960 But I reckon things weren't near so bad as he 1833 01:38:35.039 --> 01:38:38.319 made out, And I couldn't make myself believe anybody would 1834 01:38:38.319 --> 01:38:41.079 have the heart to hurt a poor, harmless critter like that. 1835 01:38:42.000 --> 01:38:44.319 By Jings, I was sure I seen Tom give that 1836 01:38:44.479 --> 01:38:48.319 kind of a faint little start, and then looked disappointed again. 1837 01:38:48.920 --> 01:38:52.920 And you know, I couldn't think a preacher would hurt him. 1838 01:38:53.239 --> 01:38:56.479 It warn't natural to think such an unlikely thing. So 1839 01:38:56.600 --> 01:39:00.359 I never paid much attention. And now I shout, ever 1840 01:39:00.560 --> 01:39:03.880 ever forgive myself, for if I had a done different, 1841 01:39:04.119 --> 01:39:06.720 my poor brother would be with me this day, and 1842 01:39:06.880 --> 01:39:10.960 not lying yonder murdered, and him so harmless he can't 1843 01:39:10.960 --> 01:39:13.479 have broke down there and choked up and waited to 1844 01:39:13.479 --> 01:39:16.600 get his voice, and people all around said the most 1845 01:39:16.640 --> 01:39:20.239 pitiful things, and women cried, and it was very still 1846 01:39:20.279 --> 01:39:23.960 in there, and solemn, and old uncle silas. Poor thing. 1847 01:39:24.439 --> 01:39:27.239 He gave a groan right out, so everybody heard him 1848 01:39:27.720 --> 01:39:32.439 then brace he went. On Saturday, September second, he didn't 1849 01:39:32.439 --> 01:39:35.359 come home to supper by and by I got a 1850 01:39:35.399 --> 01:39:37.920 little uneasy, and one of my niggers went over to 1851 01:39:38.000 --> 01:39:41.399 this prisoner's place, but come back and said he warn't there. 1852 01:39:41.800 --> 01:39:45.399 So I got uneasier and uneasier and couldn't rest. I 1853 01:39:45.439 --> 01:39:48.079 went to bed, but I couldn't sleep, and turned out 1854 01:39:48.279 --> 01:39:51.039 away late in the night and went wandering over to 1855 01:39:51.079 --> 01:39:54.439 this prisoner's place and all around about there a good while, 1856 01:39:54.720 --> 01:39:57.439 hoping I wouldn't run across my poor brother, and never 1857 01:39:57.600 --> 01:40:01.079 knowing he was out of his troubles gone to a 1858 01:40:01.600 --> 01:40:05.039 better shore. So he broke down and choked up again, 1859 01:40:05.479 --> 01:40:08.560 and most all the women was crying. Now pretty soon 1860 01:40:08.960 --> 01:40:13.439 he got another start and says, but there weren't no use. 1861 01:40:14.039 --> 01:40:16.640 So at last I went home and tried to get 1862 01:40:16.680 --> 01:40:20.520 some sleep, but couldn't well. In a day or two, 1863 01:40:20.560 --> 01:40:23.159 everybody was uneasy, and they got to talking about this 1864 01:40:23.319 --> 01:40:26.760 prisoner's threats and took to the idea which I didn't 1865 01:40:26.760 --> 01:40:30.119 take no stock in, that my brother was murdered. So 1866 01:40:30.159 --> 01:40:32.760 they hunted around and tried to find his body, but 1867 01:40:32.960 --> 01:40:36.000 couldn't and give it up, And so I reckoned. He 1868 01:40:36.119 --> 01:40:38.560 was gone off summers to have a little peace and 1869 01:40:38.800 --> 01:40:41.199 would come back to us when his troubles was kind 1870 01:40:41.239 --> 01:40:45.279 of healed. But late Saturday night, the ninth, lem Beebe 1871 01:40:45.439 --> 01:40:47.640 and Jim Lane come to my house and told me 1872 01:40:47.760 --> 01:40:52.319 all told me the whole awful sassination, and my heart 1873 01:40:52.439 --> 01:40:56.119 was broke. And then I remembered something that hadn't took 1874 01:40:56.159 --> 01:40:59.399 no hold of me at the time, because reports said 1875 01:40:59.479 --> 01:41:02.039 this prisoner had took to walking in his sleep and 1876 01:41:02.159 --> 01:41:05.319 doing all kinds of things of no consequence, not knowing 1877 01:41:05.359 --> 01:41:08.399 what he was about. I will tell you what that 1878 01:41:08.600 --> 01:41:12.359 thing was that come back into my memory away late 1879 01:41:12.439 --> 01:41:15.520 that awful Saturday night, when I was wandering around about 1880 01:41:15.560 --> 01:41:19.600 this prisoner's place, grieving and troubled. I was down by 1881 01:41:19.640 --> 01:41:21.720 the corner of the tobaccer field, and I heard a 1882 01:41:21.800 --> 01:41:25.159 sound like digging in a gritty soil, and I crope 1883 01:41:25.239 --> 01:41:27.840 nearer and peeped through the vines that hung on the 1884 01:41:27.960 --> 01:41:32.479 rail fence and seen this prisoner shoveling, shoveling with a 1885 01:41:32.520 --> 01:41:36.960 long handled shovel, heaving earth into a big hole that 1886 01:41:37.159 --> 01:41:40.159 was most filled up. His back was to me, but 1887 01:41:40.359 --> 01:41:43.199 it was bright moonlight, and I knowed him by his 1888 01:41:43.279 --> 01:41:47.039 old green baize worked down with a splattery white patch 1889 01:41:47.039 --> 01:41:49.359 in the middle of the back, like somebody had hit 1890 01:41:49.479 --> 01:41:54.800 him with a snowball. He was burying the man he murder. 1891 01:41:56.000 --> 01:41:58.920 He slumped down in his chair, crying and sobbing, and 1892 01:41:59.079 --> 01:42:02.359 most everybody in the house busted out wailing and crying 1893 01:42:02.399 --> 01:42:06.439 and saying, oh, it's awful, awful, horrible, And there was 1894 01:42:06.640 --> 01:42:10.359 a most tremendous excitement, and you couldn't hear yourself think. 1895 01:42:10.680 --> 01:42:13.079 And right in the midst of it, up jumps old 1896 01:42:13.159 --> 01:42:17.039 uncle Silas white as a sheet, and sings out it's true, 1897 01:42:17.680 --> 01:42:24.359 every word. I murdered him in cold blood by Jackson. 1898 01:42:24.520 --> 01:42:29.439 It petrified them. People rose up wild all over the house, 1899 01:42:29.840 --> 01:42:32.720 straining and staring for a better look at him. And 1900 01:42:32.800 --> 01:42:35.239 the judge was hammering with his mallet, and the sheriff 1901 01:42:35.319 --> 01:42:39.840 yelling order order in the court order, and all the 1902 01:42:39.880 --> 01:42:43.000 while the old man stood there a quaking in his 1903 01:42:43.079 --> 01:42:46.279 eyes are burning, and not looking at his wife and daughter, 1904 01:42:46.680 --> 01:42:49.840 which was clinging to him and begging him to keep still, 1905 01:42:50.479 --> 01:42:53.239 but pawing them off with his hands and saying he 1906 01:42:53.439 --> 01:42:56.960 would clear his black soul from crime. He would heave 1907 01:42:57.079 --> 01:42:59.640 off this load that was more than he could bear, 1908 01:42:59.880 --> 01:43:03.479 and he wouldn't bear it another hour. And then he 1909 01:43:03.640 --> 01:43:09.279 raged right along with his awful tale, everybody staring and gasping, Judge, jury, 1910 01:43:09.640 --> 01:43:14.039 lawyers and everybody, and Benny and Aunt Sally crying their 1911 01:43:14.119 --> 01:43:19.479 hearts out by George Tom Sawyer never looked at him once, 1912 01:43:20.000 --> 01:43:23.319 never once, just set there gazing with all his eyes 1913 01:43:23.359 --> 01:43:26.039 at something else. I couldn't tell what. And so the 1914 01:43:26.119 --> 01:43:29.800 old man raged right along, pouring his words out like 1915 01:43:29.840 --> 01:43:35.560 a stream of fire. I killed him, I am duty, 1916 01:43:36.720 --> 01:43:39.880 but I never had the notion in my life to 1917 01:43:40.039 --> 01:43:44.479 hurt him or harm him, spite of all them lies 1918 01:43:44.560 --> 01:43:48.960 about my threatening him, till the very minute I raised 1919 01:43:49.000 --> 01:43:54.399 the club. Then my heart went cold. Then the pity 1920 01:43:54.560 --> 01:43:58.039 all went out of it, and I struck to kill 1921 01:43:58.560 --> 01:44:02.319 in that one moment, and all my wrongs come into 1922 01:44:02.359 --> 01:44:06.079 my mind, all the insults that that man and the 1923 01:44:06.159 --> 01:44:09.880 scoundrel his brother there had put upon me, and how 1924 01:44:09.920 --> 01:44:12.840 they laid in together to ruin me with the people 1925 01:44:13.319 --> 01:44:17.159 and take away my good name and drive me to 1926 01:44:17.279 --> 01:44:20.760 some deed that would destroy me and my family that 1927 01:44:20.920 --> 01:44:24.000 hadn't ever done them no harm, so help me God, 1928 01:44:24.920 --> 01:44:28.680 And they'd done it in a mean revenge. For why 1929 01:44:29.600 --> 01:44:33.319 because my innocent, pure girl here at my side wouldn't 1930 01:44:33.359 --> 01:44:37.760 marry that rich, insolent, ignorant cowered brace Dunlap, who's been 1931 01:44:37.880 --> 01:44:41.119 sniveling here over a brother he never cared to brace 1932 01:44:41.239 --> 01:44:44.279 farthing for I see Tom give a jump and look 1933 01:44:44.359 --> 01:44:48.000 glad this time to a dead certainty. And in that 1934 01:44:48.239 --> 01:44:52.000 moment I've told you about, I forgot my God and 1935 01:44:52.079 --> 01:44:56.680 remembered only my heart's bitterness. God forgive me, and I 1936 01:44:56.840 --> 01:45:02.039 struck to kill. In one second I was I'm miserably sorry, oh, 1937 01:45:02.319 --> 01:45:05.760 filled with remorse. But I thought of my poor family, 1938 01:45:06.119 --> 01:45:09.239 and I must hide what I had done for their sakes. 1939 01:45:09.600 --> 01:45:12.039 And I did hide that corpse in the bushes, and 1940 01:45:12.159 --> 01:45:15.399 presently I carried it to the tobacco field, and in 1941 01:45:15.479 --> 01:45:18.600 the deep night I went with my shovel and buried it, 1942 01:45:18.640 --> 01:45:23.960 where up jumps Tom and shouts, now I've got it, 1943 01:45:24.680 --> 01:45:27.359 and waves his hand. Oh, ever, so fine and starchy 1944 01:45:27.399 --> 01:45:31.159 towards the old man that says, sit down, A murder 1945 01:45:31.640 --> 01:45:35.720 was done, but you never had no hand in it. Well, sir, 1946 01:45:36.199 --> 01:45:38.560 you could hurt a pin drop. And the old man 1947 01:45:38.600 --> 01:45:40.840 he sunk down kind of bewildered in his seat, and 1948 01:45:40.920 --> 01:45:43.960 Aunt Sally and Benny didn't know it because they were 1949 01:45:44.000 --> 01:45:47.199 so astonished and staring at Tom with their mouths open 1950 01:45:47.319 --> 01:45:50.319 and not knowing what they was about, and the whole 1951 01:45:50.359 --> 01:45:53.399 house the same. I never seen people look so helpless 1952 01:45:53.399 --> 01:45:56.640 and tangled up, and I hate ever seen eyes bug 1953 01:45:56.680 --> 01:45:59.319 out and gaze without a blink the way there and 1954 01:45:59.319 --> 01:46:04.159 did Tom says perfectly, Tom, you're writer, May I speak 1955 01:46:05.000 --> 01:46:08.560 for goodness sakes? Yes? Go on, says the judge, so 1956 01:46:08.680 --> 01:46:11.359 astonished and mixed up, he didn't know what he was about. 1957 01:46:11.359 --> 01:46:14.479 Hardly then Tom, he stood there and waited a second 1958 01:46:14.560 --> 01:46:17.359 or two. That was to work up and effect, as 1959 01:46:17.399 --> 01:46:20.399 he calls it. Then he started in just as calm 1960 01:46:20.439 --> 01:46:24.920 as ever, and says, for about two weeks now, there's 1961 01:46:24.960 --> 01:46:27.279 been a little bill sticking on the front of this 1962 01:46:27.439 --> 01:46:31.399 courthouse offering two thousand dollars reward for a couple of 1963 01:46:31.439 --> 01:46:36.239 big diamonds stole at Saint Louis. Then diamonds is worth 1964 01:46:36.399 --> 01:46:40.359 twelve thousand dollars. But never mind about that till I 1965 01:46:40.399 --> 01:46:43.960 get to it. Now, about this murder, I will tell 1966 01:46:44.039 --> 01:46:46.920 you all about it, how it happened, who done it, 1967 01:46:47.319 --> 01:46:51.439 every detail you could see everybody nestle down and begin 1968 01:46:51.520 --> 01:46:54.600 to listen for all they was worth. This man here, 1969 01:46:54.720 --> 01:46:58.319 brace Dunlap, that's been sniveling so about his dead brother, 1970 01:46:58.439 --> 01:47:01.760 that you know he never cared a straw for wanted 1971 01:47:01.800 --> 01:47:04.720 to marry that young girl there, and she wouldn't have him. 1972 01:47:05.079 --> 01:47:08.279 So he told Uncle Silas he would make him. Sorry. 1973 01:47:08.800 --> 01:47:12.279 Uncle Silas knowed how powerful he was and how little 1974 01:47:12.359 --> 01:47:14.800 chance he had against such a man, and he was 1975 01:47:14.920 --> 01:47:18.119 scared and worried and done everything he could think of 1976 01:47:18.239 --> 01:47:20.800 to smooth him over and get him to be good 1977 01:47:20.800 --> 01:47:23.800 to him. And he even took his no account brother Jubiter, 1978 01:47:23.920 --> 01:47:27.079 on the farm and give him wages, and stinted his 1979 01:47:27.119 --> 01:47:30.520 own family to pay them. And Jubiter done everything his 1980 01:47:30.640 --> 01:47:34.439 brother could contrive to insult Uncle Silas and fret and 1981 01:47:34.520 --> 01:47:37.439 worry him and try to drive Uncle Silas into doing 1982 01:47:37.520 --> 01:47:40.039 him a hurt so as to injure Uncle Silas with 1983 01:47:40.119 --> 01:47:43.760 the people. And it done it. Everybody turned against him 1984 01:47:43.800 --> 01:47:46.239 and said the meanest kind of things about him, and 1985 01:47:46.319 --> 01:47:49.520 it gradly broke his heart. Yes, and he was so 1986 01:47:49.640 --> 01:47:52.479 worried and distressed that often he warn't hardly in his 1987 01:47:52.560 --> 01:47:56.439 right mind. Well on that Saturday, that we've had so 1988 01:47:56.600 --> 01:48:00.000 much trouble about two of these witnesses here, lam him 1989 01:48:00.119 --> 01:48:03.720 Beebe and Jim Lane come along by where Uncle Silas 1990 01:48:03.720 --> 01:48:06.680 and Jubiter Dunlap was at work, and that much of 1991 01:48:06.800 --> 01:48:10.199 what they said is true, the rest is lies. They 1992 01:48:10.279 --> 01:48:13.479 didn't hear Uncle Silas say he would kill Jubiter. They 1993 01:48:13.520 --> 01:48:16.840 didn't hear no blows struck, they didn't see no dead man, 1994 01:48:17.199 --> 01:48:20.079 and they didn't see Uncle Silas hide anything in the bushes. 1995 01:48:20.640 --> 01:48:23.359 Look at them now, how they set there wishing they 1996 01:48:23.399 --> 01:48:26.520 hadn't been so handy with their tongues. Anyway, they'll wish 1997 01:48:26.520 --> 01:48:29.920 it before I get done. That Saturday evening, Bill and 1998 01:48:30.039 --> 01:48:33.239 Jack Withers did see one man lugging off another one. 1999 01:48:33.560 --> 01:48:35.840 That much of what they said is true, and the 2000 01:48:35.880 --> 01:48:38.720 rest is lies. First off, they thought it was a 2001 01:48:38.800 --> 01:48:42.000 nigger stealing Uncle Silas's corn. You notice it makes them 2002 01:48:42.039 --> 01:48:45.840 look silly now to find out somebody overheard them say that. 2003 01:48:46.279 --> 01:48:48.520 That's because they found out by and by who it 2004 01:48:48.720 --> 01:48:51.840 was that was doing the lugging. And they know best why. 2005 01:48:51.880 --> 01:48:54.760 They swore here that they took it for Uncle Silas 2006 01:48:54.760 --> 01:48:57.800 by the gate, which it wasn't. And they knowed it 2007 01:48:58.000 --> 01:49:00.920 when they swore to that lie. A man out in 2008 01:49:00.920 --> 01:49:04.000 the moonlight did see a murdered person put underground in 2009 01:49:04.079 --> 01:49:06.720 the tobacco field. But it wasn't Uncle Silas that had 2010 01:49:06.760 --> 01:49:09.039 done the baring. He was in his bed at that 2011 01:49:09.279 --> 01:49:12.760 very time. Now, then, before I go on, I want 2012 01:49:12.800 --> 01:49:16.000 to ask you if you've ever noticed this, that people, 2013 01:49:16.079 --> 01:49:19.479 when they're thinking deep or when they're worried, are most 2014 01:49:19.520 --> 01:49:22.439 always doing something with their hands, and they don't know 2015 01:49:22.479 --> 01:49:25.239 it and don't notice what it is their hands are doing. 2016 01:49:25.680 --> 01:49:29.720 Some stroke their chins, some stroke their noses, some stroke 2017 01:49:29.920 --> 01:49:33.159 up under their chin with their hand, Some twirl a chain, 2018 01:49:33.720 --> 01:49:36.600 some fumble a button. Then there's some that draws a 2019 01:49:36.640 --> 01:49:38.880 figure or a letter with their finger on their cheek 2020 01:49:39.159 --> 01:49:42.640 or under their chin, or on their under lip. That's 2021 01:49:42.720 --> 01:49:46.520 my way when I'm restless or worried or thinking hard, 2022 01:49:47.079 --> 01:49:50.560 I draw capital v's on my cheek or on my 2023 01:49:50.800 --> 01:49:54.960 underlip or under my chin, and never anything but capital v's. 2024 01:49:55.560 --> 01:49:57.600 And half the time I don't notice it and don't 2025 01:49:57.680 --> 01:50:01.399 know I'm doing it. That was aw That is just 2026 01:50:01.479 --> 01:50:04.399 what I do. Only I make an oh. And I 2027 01:50:04.439 --> 01:50:06.920 could see people nodding to one another, same as they 2028 01:50:06.960 --> 01:50:10.680 do when they mean that's so now, then I'll go on. 2029 01:50:11.479 --> 01:50:15.079 That's same Saturday. No, it was the night before. There 2030 01:50:15.119 --> 01:50:18.760 was a steamboat laying at Flagler's landing forty miles above here, 2031 01:50:19.199 --> 01:50:22.000 and it was raining and storming like the nation, and 2032 01:50:22.079 --> 01:50:24.640 there was a thief aboard, and he had them two 2033 01:50:24.760 --> 01:50:28.279 big di'monds that's advertised out here on this court house door. 2034 01:50:28.760 --> 01:50:31.520 And he slipped ashore with his hand bag and struck 2035 01:50:31.560 --> 01:50:33.880 out into the dark in the storm. And he was 2036 01:50:33.920 --> 01:50:36.239 a hoping he could get to this town all right 2037 01:50:36.319 --> 01:50:39.239 an be safe. But he had two pals aboard the 2038 01:50:39.239 --> 01:50:42.079 boat hiding, and he knowed they was going to kill 2039 01:50:42.159 --> 01:50:44.640 him the first chance they got and take the di'monds, 2040 01:50:44.920 --> 01:50:47.840 because all three stole them, and then this fellow he 2041 01:50:47.920 --> 01:50:50.720 got a hold of them and skipped. Well, he hadn't 2042 01:50:50.720 --> 01:50:53.720 been gone more'n ten minutes before his pals found it out, 2043 01:50:53.960 --> 01:50:56.880 and they jumped ashore and lit out after him. Probably 2044 01:50:56.920 --> 01:51:00.600 they'd burnt matches and found his tracks. Anyway, they dogged 2045 01:51:00.640 --> 01:51:03.600 along after him all day Saturday and kept out of 2046 01:51:03.600 --> 01:51:06.479 his sight, and towards sundown he come to the bunch 2047 01:51:06.520 --> 01:51:09.920 of sycamores down by Uncle Silas's field, and he went 2048 01:51:09.960 --> 01:51:12.439 in there to get a disguise out of his handbag 2049 01:51:12.800 --> 01:51:15.079 and put it on before he showed himself here in 2050 01:51:15.159 --> 01:51:18.239 the town. And mind you, he'd done that just a 2051 01:51:18.279 --> 01:51:21.159 little after the time that Uncle Silas was hitting Jubiter 2052 01:51:21.279 --> 01:51:23.920 Dunlap over the head with the club, for he did 2053 01:51:24.000 --> 01:51:27.159 hit him. But the minute the pal see that thief 2054 01:51:27.239 --> 01:51:30.239 slide into the bunch of sycamores, they jumped out of 2055 01:51:30.239 --> 01:51:33.039 the bushes and slid in after him. They fell on 2056 01:51:33.159 --> 01:51:36.279 him and clubbed him to death. Yes, for all he 2057 01:51:36.479 --> 01:51:40.399 screamed and howled, so they never had no mercy on him, 2058 01:51:40.399 --> 01:51:43.199 but clubbed him to death. And two men that was 2059 01:51:43.279 --> 01:51:46.359 running along the road heard him yelling that way, and 2060 01:51:46.439 --> 01:51:49.000 they made a rush into the sycamore bunch, which was 2061 01:51:49.039 --> 01:51:52.239 where they was bound for anyway. And when the pals 2062 01:51:52.319 --> 01:51:55.359 saw them, they lit out, and the two men after 2063 01:51:55.399 --> 01:51:57.479 them at chasing them as tight as they could go. 2064 01:51:58.000 --> 01:52:00.880 But only a minute or two. Then these two new 2065 01:52:00.920 --> 01:52:04.840 men slipped back, very quiet into the sycamores. Then what 2066 01:52:04.880 --> 01:52:07.479 did they do? I will tell you what they'd done. 2067 01:52:07.880 --> 01:52:10.560 They found where the thief had got his disguise out 2068 01:52:10.600 --> 01:52:13.239 of his carpet sack to put on so one of 2069 01:52:13.279 --> 01:52:17.000 them strips and puts on that disguise. Tom waited a 2070 01:52:17.039 --> 01:52:21.199 little here for some more effect. Then he says, very deliberate, 2071 01:52:21.800 --> 01:52:24.960 the man that put on that dead man's disguise was 2072 01:52:25.479 --> 01:52:30.319 Jubiter Dunlap, Great Scott. Everybody shouted all over the house, 2073 01:52:30.479 --> 01:52:33.800 and old Uncle Silas he looked perfectly astonished. Yes it 2074 01:52:34.119 --> 01:52:37.640 was Jubiter Dunlap, not Dad, you see. Then they pulled 2075 01:52:37.640 --> 01:52:40.520 off the dead man's boots and put Jubiter Dunlap's old 2076 01:52:40.600 --> 01:52:43.680 ragged shoes on the corpse, and put the corpse's boots 2077 01:52:43.680 --> 01:52:47.640 on Jubiter Dunlap. Then Jubiter Dunlap stayed where he was, 2078 01:52:48.159 --> 01:52:50.319 and the other man lugged the dead body off in 2079 01:52:50.399 --> 01:52:54.239 the twilight. And after midnight he went to Uncle Silas's 2080 01:52:54.239 --> 01:52:56.960 house and took his old green work robe off the 2081 01:52:57.000 --> 01:52:59.800 peg where it all was hangs in the passage betwixt 2082 01:52:59.880 --> 01:53:02.760 the house and the kitchen, and put it on, and 2083 01:53:02.880 --> 01:53:05.920 stole the long handled shovel and went off down into 2084 01:53:05.960 --> 01:53:09.920 the tobacco field and buried the murdered man. He stopped 2085 01:53:09.960 --> 01:53:13.399 and stood half a minute. Then, and who do you 2086 01:53:13.479 --> 01:53:18.239 reckon the murdered man? Was? It was Jake Dunlap, the 2087 01:53:18.319 --> 01:53:22.840 long lost burglar, Great Scott, and the man that buried 2088 01:53:22.880 --> 01:53:28.399 him was Brace Dunlap, his brother, Great Scott. And who 2089 01:53:28.439 --> 01:53:31.920 do you reckon? Is this mowing idiot here that's letting 2090 01:53:31.920 --> 01:53:34.800 on all these weeks to be a deef and dumb stranger. 2091 01:53:35.479 --> 01:53:40.000 It's Jubiter Dunlap, my land. They all busted out in 2092 01:53:40.079 --> 01:53:42.239 a howl, and you never see the like of that 2093 01:53:42.319 --> 01:53:45.479 excitement since the day you was born. And Tom he 2094 01:53:45.560 --> 01:53:48.159 made a jump for Jubiter and snaked off his goggles 2095 01:53:48.159 --> 01:53:50.880 and his false whiskers. And there was the murdered man, 2096 01:53:50.920 --> 01:53:54.359 sure enough, just as alive as anybody. And Aunt Sally 2097 01:53:54.439 --> 01:53:57.960 and Benny they went to hugging and crying and kissing 2098 01:53:58.039 --> 01:54:01.479 and smothering old Uncle Silas. To that degree he was 2099 01:54:01.520 --> 01:54:04.199 more muddled and confused and mushed up in his mind 2100 01:54:04.199 --> 01:54:07.560 than he ever was before, And that is saying considerable. 2101 01:54:07.960 --> 01:54:12.039 And next people began to yell Tom Sawyer. Tom Sawyer 2102 01:54:12.600 --> 01:54:15.159 shut up everybody and let him go on, go on, 2103 01:54:15.399 --> 01:54:19.560 Tom Sawyer, which made him feel uncommon bully, for it 2104 01:54:19.680 --> 01:54:22.279 was nuts for Tom Sawyer to be a public character 2105 01:54:22.359 --> 01:54:25.319 that way, and a hero, as he calls it, so 2106 01:54:25.399 --> 01:54:28.439 when it was all quiet, he says, there ain't much left, 2107 01:54:28.479 --> 01:54:32.399 only this, when that man there, Brace Dunlap, had most 2108 01:54:32.479 --> 01:54:35.159 worried the life and sense out of Uncle Silas, till 2109 01:54:35.199 --> 01:54:37.560 at last he plumb lost his mind and hit this 2110 01:54:37.760 --> 01:54:41.760 other Blatherskype his brother with a club. I reckon, he's 2111 01:54:41.760 --> 01:54:44.760 seen his chance. Jupiter broke for the woods to hide, 2112 01:54:44.800 --> 01:54:47.079 and I reckon the game was for him to slide 2113 01:54:47.199 --> 01:54:50.239 out in the night and leave the country. Then Brace 2114 01:54:50.279 --> 01:54:53.359 would make everybody believe Uncle Silas killed him and hid 2115 01:54:53.359 --> 01:54:56.279 his body summers, and that would ruin Uncle Silas and 2116 01:54:56.359 --> 01:54:59.000 drive him out of the country hang him maybe, I 2117 01:54:59.000 --> 01:55:01.920 don't know. But when they found their dead brother and 2118 01:55:02.000 --> 01:55:05.560 the sycamores without knowing him, because he was so battered up, 2119 01:55:05.880 --> 01:55:09.359 they see they had a better thing. Disguise both and 2120 01:55:09.399 --> 01:55:12.319 barry Jake and dig him up presently, all dressed up 2121 01:55:12.319 --> 01:55:15.840 in Jubiter's clothes, and hire Jim Lane and Bill Withers 2122 01:55:15.880 --> 01:55:18.960 and the others to swear to some handy lies, which 2123 01:55:19.000 --> 01:55:22.760 they done. And there they sat now, And I told 2124 01:55:22.800 --> 01:55:25.239 them they would be looking sick before I got done, 2125 01:55:25.600 --> 01:55:29.319 And that is the way they're looking now. Well, Me 2126 01:55:29.439 --> 01:55:31.920 and Huck Finn here. We come down on the boat 2127 01:55:31.960 --> 01:55:34.279 with the thieves, and the dead one told us all 2128 01:55:34.319 --> 01:55:37.359 about the diamonds and said the others would murder him 2129 01:55:37.359 --> 01:55:39.560 if they got the chance, and we was going to 2130 01:55:39.600 --> 01:55:42.079 help him all we could. We was bound for the 2131 01:55:42.079 --> 01:55:45.119 sycamores when we heard them killing him in there. But 2132 01:55:45.520 --> 01:55:47.920 we was in there in the early morning after the 2133 01:55:47.960 --> 01:55:51.840 storm and loud nobody hadn't been killed after all. And 2134 01:55:51.920 --> 01:55:54.960 when we see Jubiter Dunlap here spreading around in the 2135 01:55:55.119 --> 01:55:58.800 very same disguise Jake told us he was going to wear, 2136 01:55:59.279 --> 01:56:02.079 we thought it was his own self, and he was 2137 01:56:02.159 --> 01:56:06.479 googooing deef and dumb, and that was according to agreement. Well, 2138 01:56:06.880 --> 01:56:09.600 me and Huck went on hunting for the corpse after 2139 01:56:09.640 --> 01:56:13.119 the others quit, and we found it and was proud too, 2140 01:56:13.199 --> 01:56:16.359 But Uncle Silas he knocked us crazy by telling us 2141 01:56:16.399 --> 01:56:19.640 he killed the man. So we was mighty sorry. We 2142 01:56:19.800 --> 01:56:22.960 found the body and was bound to save Uncle Silas's 2143 01:56:23.000 --> 01:56:24.840 neck if we could. And it was going to be 2144 01:56:24.920 --> 01:56:27.439 tough work too, because he wouldn't let us break him 2145 01:56:27.439 --> 01:56:29.399 out of prison the way we done with our old 2146 01:56:29.479 --> 01:56:32.840 nigger Jim. I done everything I could the whole month 2147 01:56:32.920 --> 01:56:35.199 to think up some way to save Uncle Silas. But 2148 01:56:35.239 --> 01:56:38.039 I couldn't strike a thing. So when we come into 2149 01:56:38.039 --> 01:56:40.840 court to day, I come empty and couldn't see no 2150 01:56:40.960 --> 01:56:44.159 chance anywheres. But bye and bye. I had a glimpse 2151 01:56:44.199 --> 01:56:47.560 of something that set me thinking, just a little wee glimpse, 2152 01:56:47.920 --> 01:56:50.680 only that, and not enough to make sure. But it 2153 01:56:50.800 --> 01:56:54.119 set me thinking hard and watching when I was only 2154 01:56:54.199 --> 01:56:56.720 letting on to think, and by and bye. Sure enough, 2155 01:56:56.720 --> 01:56:59.880 when Uncle Silas was piling out that stuff about him 2156 01:57:00.119 --> 01:57:03.760 killing Jubiter Dunlap, I catched that glimpse again, and this 2157 01:57:03.920 --> 01:57:06.520 time I jumped up and shut down the proceedings because 2158 01:57:06.560 --> 01:57:09.880 I knowed Jubiter Dunlap was a settin here before me. 2159 01:57:10.560 --> 01:57:13.319 I knowed him by a thing which I seen him do, 2160 01:57:13.680 --> 01:57:16.840 and I remembered it. I'd seen him do it when 2161 01:57:16.880 --> 01:57:19.920 I was here a year ago. He stopped then and 2162 01:57:20.039 --> 01:57:24.039 studied a minute, laying for an effect. I knowed it perfectly. Well. 2163 01:57:24.560 --> 01:57:26.560 Then he turned off like he was going to leave 2164 01:57:26.600 --> 01:57:30.079 the platform and says, kind of lazy and indifferent. Well, 2165 01:57:30.680 --> 01:57:34.319 I believe that is all. Wow, you never heard such 2166 01:57:34.319 --> 01:57:37.520 a howl, and it come from the whole house. What 2167 01:57:38.079 --> 01:57:40.640 was it you seen him do? Stay where you were, 2168 01:57:40.680 --> 01:57:42.880 you little devil. You think you were going to work 2169 01:57:42.920 --> 01:57:46.000 a body up till his mouth a watering and stop there? 2170 01:57:46.479 --> 01:57:50.359 What was it he done? That was it? You see? 2171 01:57:50.720 --> 01:57:53.399 He just done it to get an effect. You couldn't 2172 01:57:53.399 --> 01:57:55.960 have pulled him off that platform with a yoke of oxen. 2173 01:57:56.439 --> 01:58:00.520 Oh it wasn't anything much, he says. I've seen him 2174 01:58:00.560 --> 01:58:03.000 looking a little excited when he found Uncle Silas was 2175 01:58:03.039 --> 01:58:05.800 actually fixing to hang himself for a murder that warn't 2176 01:58:05.840 --> 01:58:09.279 ever done. And he got more and more nervous and worried. 2177 01:58:09.840 --> 01:58:12.960 I watching him sharp, but not seeming to look at him, 2178 01:58:13.239 --> 01:58:15.560 And all of a sudden his hands begun to work 2179 01:58:15.560 --> 01:58:18.920 and fidget, and pretty soon his left crept up and 2180 01:58:19.119 --> 01:58:22.760 his finger drawed across on his cheek, And then I 2181 01:58:22.960 --> 01:58:27.039 had him. Well. Then they ripped and howled and stomped 2182 01:58:27.079 --> 01:58:30.199 and clapped their hands till Tom Sawyer was that proud 2183 01:58:30.239 --> 01:58:32.479 and happy he didn't know what to do with himself. 2184 01:58:32.720 --> 01:58:35.199 And then the judge, he looked down over his pulpit 2185 01:58:35.239 --> 01:58:39.479 and says, my boy, did you see all the various 2186 01:58:39.520 --> 01:58:45.039 details of this strange conspiracy and tragedy that you've been describing? No, 2187 01:58:45.159 --> 01:58:48.279 your honor I didn't see any of them, didn't see 2188 01:58:48.319 --> 01:58:52.760 any of them. Why you've told the whole history straight through, 2189 01:58:53.319 --> 01:58:55.399 just the same as if you'd seen it with your eyes, 2190 01:58:55.720 --> 01:59:01.319 had jamage that, Tom says, kind of easy and comfortable. Oh, 2191 01:59:01.439 --> 01:59:04.760 just noticing the evidence and piecing this and that together, 2192 01:59:04.840 --> 01:59:07.720 Your honor, just an ordinary little bit of detective work. 2193 01:59:08.119 --> 01:59:11.039 Anybody could have done it, nothing of the kind, not 2194 01:59:11.199 --> 01:59:14.000 two in a million could have done it. You are 2195 01:59:14.039 --> 01:59:17.840 a very remarkable boy. Then they let go and give 2196 01:59:17.920 --> 01:59:22.479 Tom another smashing round, and he well, he wouldn't sold 2197 01:59:22.520 --> 01:59:25.479 out for a silver mine. Then the judge says, but 2198 01:59:25.840 --> 01:59:29.800 are you certain you've got this curious history straight perfectly? 2199 01:59:29.920 --> 01:59:33.600 Your Honor, here is brace dunlap. Let him deny his 2200 01:59:33.680 --> 01:59:35.640 share of it. If he wants to take the chance, 2201 01:59:35.880 --> 01:59:39.439 I'll engage to make him wish he hadn't said anything. Well, 2202 01:59:39.640 --> 01:59:43.039 you see, he's pretty quiet, and his brother's pretty quiet. 2203 01:59:43.479 --> 01:59:46.239 And then four witnesses that lied so and got paid 2204 01:59:46.279 --> 01:59:49.520 for it, they're pretty quiet. And as for Uncle Silas, 2205 01:59:49.920 --> 01:59:52.239 it ain't any use for him to put in his oar, 2206 01:59:52.560 --> 01:59:55.840 I wouldn't believe him under oath. Well, sir, that fairly 2207 01:59:55.880 --> 01:59:58.560 made them shout and even the judge. He let go 2208 01:59:58.600 --> 02:00:01.720 and laughed. Tom, he was just feeling like a rainbow. 2209 02:00:02.159 --> 02:00:04.079 When they was done laughing, he looks up at the 2210 02:00:04.159 --> 02:00:07.560 judge and says, your honor, there's a thief in this house, 2211 02:00:08.199 --> 02:00:11.800 a thief, yes, sir, and he's got them twelve thousand 2212 02:00:11.760 --> 02:00:15.520 dollars diamonds on him, by gracious. But it made a stir. 2213 02:00:16.000 --> 02:00:19.640 Everybody went shouting, witch is him? Witch is him? Pint 2214 02:00:19.720 --> 02:00:22.600 him out? And the judge says, point him out, my 2215 02:00:22.680 --> 02:00:26.119 lad Sheriff, you will arrest him. Which one is it? 2216 02:00:26.640 --> 02:00:32.479 Tom says, this late dead man here Jubiter Dunlap. Then 2217 02:00:32.560 --> 02:00:35.760 there was another thundering let go of astonishment and excitement. 2218 02:00:36.119 --> 02:00:39.560 But Jubiter, which was astonished enough before, was just fairly 2219 02:00:39.680 --> 02:00:43.520 putrified with astonishment this time. And he spoke up about 2220 02:00:43.560 --> 02:00:48.039 half crying and says, no, that's a lie, your honor, 2221 02:00:48.079 --> 02:00:51.119 it ain't fire. I have plenty bad enough without that. 2222 02:00:51.560 --> 02:00:54.119 I'd done the other things. Brace he put me up 2223 02:00:54.159 --> 02:00:56.760 to it and persuaded me and promised he'd make me 2224 02:00:56.880 --> 02:00:59.720 rich someday, and I'd done it, and I'm sorry i'd 2225 02:00:59.720 --> 02:01:02.279 done it, and I wished I hadn't, but I ain't 2226 02:01:02.279 --> 02:01:05.920 stole no diamonds, and I ain't got no di'monds. I 2227 02:01:06.000 --> 02:01:08.520 wished I may never stir if it ain't, so the 2228 02:01:08.560 --> 02:01:12.199 sheriff can search me and see. Tom says, your honor, 2229 02:01:12.680 --> 02:01:14.840 it wasn't right to call him a thief, and I'll 2230 02:01:15.000 --> 02:01:17.920 let up on that a little. He did steal the diamonds, 2231 02:01:17.960 --> 02:01:20.359 but he didn't know it. He stole them from his 2232 02:01:20.439 --> 02:01:23.319 brother Jake when he was laying dead, after Jake had 2233 02:01:23.359 --> 02:01:26.920 stole them from the other thieves, but Jubiter didn't know 2234 02:01:27.000 --> 02:01:30.079 he was stealing them. And he's been swelling around here 2235 02:01:30.119 --> 02:01:33.920 with them a month, Yes, sir, twelve thousand dollars worth 2236 02:01:33.920 --> 02:01:37.399 of diamonds on him, all that riches, and going around 2237 02:01:37.399 --> 02:01:40.520 here every day, just like a poor man. Yes, Your Honor, 2238 02:01:40.600 --> 02:01:43.960 he's got them on him now. The judge spoke up 2239 02:01:44.000 --> 02:01:48.319 and says, search him, sheriff, Well, Sir, the sheriff he 2240 02:01:48.439 --> 02:01:54.039 ransacked him high and low and everywhere, searched his hat, socks, seams, boots, everything, 2241 02:01:54.479 --> 02:01:57.239 and Tom he stood there quiet, laying for another of 2242 02:01:57.279 --> 02:02:00.960 them effects of his Finally the if he give it up, 2243 02:02:01.279 --> 02:02:04.279 and everybody looked disappointed, and Jubiter says, they are now 2244 02:02:04.359 --> 02:02:08.039 what I tell you, And the judge says, it appears 2245 02:02:08.199 --> 02:02:11.960 you were mistaken this time, my bar Then Tom took 2246 02:02:12.000 --> 02:02:14.319 an attitude and led on to be studying with all 2247 02:02:14.359 --> 02:02:16.960 his might and scratching his head. Then all of a 2248 02:02:16.960 --> 02:02:20.439 sudden he glanced up Chipper and says, oh, now I've 2249 02:02:20.479 --> 02:02:23.520 got it. I'd forgot, which was a lie, and I 2250 02:02:23.640 --> 02:02:27.039 noted it. Then he says, will somebody be good enough 2251 02:02:27.039 --> 02:02:30.880 to lend me a little small screwdriver? There was one 2252 02:02:30.920 --> 02:02:34.319 in your brother's handbag that you smooched, Jubiter, But I 2253 02:02:34.399 --> 02:02:37.760 reckon you didn't fetch it with you. No, I didn't. 2254 02:02:37.880 --> 02:02:40.399 I didn't want it, and I give it away. That's 2255 02:02:40.439 --> 02:02:44.000 because you didn't know what it was for. Jubiter had 2256 02:02:44.039 --> 02:02:46.760 his boots on again by now. And when the thing 2257 02:02:46.880 --> 02:02:49.720 Tom wanted was passed over the people's heads till it 2258 02:02:49.760 --> 02:02:52.600 got to him, he says to Jubiter, put up your 2259 02:02:52.640 --> 02:02:56.319 boot on this chair, and he kneeled down and begun 2260 02:02:56.359 --> 02:02:59.760 to unscrew the heel plate, everybody watching. And when he 2261 02:02:59.800 --> 02:03:02.520 got that big diamond out of that boot, heel and 2262 02:03:02.640 --> 02:03:05.239 held it up and let it flash and blaze and 2263 02:03:05.319 --> 02:03:08.960 squirt sunlight every which way. It just took everybody's breath 2264 02:03:09.279 --> 02:03:11.840 and jubiter. He looked so sick and sorry, you never 2265 02:03:11.880 --> 02:03:14.319 see the like of it. And when Tom held up 2266 02:03:14.359 --> 02:03:18.560 the other diamond, he looked sorrier than ever land. He 2267 02:03:18.680 --> 02:03:21.079 was thinking how he would have skipped out and been 2268 02:03:21.239 --> 02:03:24.279 rich and independent in a foreign country if he'd only 2269 02:03:24.359 --> 02:03:26.800 had the luck to guess what the screwdriver was in 2270 02:03:26.880 --> 02:03:31.000 the carpet bag. For well, it was the most exciting 2271 02:03:31.199 --> 02:03:34.279 time to take it all round, and Tom got cords 2272 02:03:34.319 --> 02:03:37.640 of glory. The judge took the diamonds and stood up 2273 02:03:37.640 --> 02:03:40.680 in his pulpit and cleared his throat and shoved his 2274 02:03:40.720 --> 02:03:44.399 spectacles back on his head and says, I'll keep them 2275 02:03:44.760 --> 02:03:48.319 and notify the owners, and when they send for them, 2276 02:03:48.760 --> 02:03:51.199 it will be a real pleasure to me to hand 2277 02:03:51.359 --> 02:03:55.720 you the two thousand dollars, for you've earned the money, yes, 2278 02:03:56.239 --> 02:03:59.359 and you've earned the deepest and most sincereous thanks of 2279 02:03:59.399 --> 02:04:02.800 this community. He besides for lifting a wronged and innocent 2280 02:04:02.880 --> 02:04:06.439 family out of ruin and shame, and saving a good 2281 02:04:06.479 --> 02:04:10.560 and honorable man from a felon's death, and for exposing 2282 02:04:10.640 --> 02:04:14.079 to infamy and the punishment of the law a cruel 2283 02:04:14.199 --> 02:04:19.560 and odious scoundrel and his miserable creatures. Well, sir, if 2284 02:04:19.600 --> 02:04:22.680 there's been a brass band to bust out some music, 2285 02:04:22.760 --> 02:04:25.800 then it would have been just the perfectest thing I 2286 02:04:25.920 --> 02:04:29.359 ever see. And Tom Sawry he said the same. Then 2287 02:04:29.800 --> 02:04:32.720 the sheriff he now braced Dunlap in his crowd, and 2288 02:04:32.840 --> 02:04:35.600 by and by next month the judge had them up 2289 02:04:35.640 --> 02:04:38.800 for trial and jailed a whole lot, and everybody crowded 2290 02:04:38.840 --> 02:04:41.760 back to Uncle Silas's little old church and was ever 2291 02:04:41.840 --> 02:04:44.279 so loving and kind to him and the family, and 2292 02:04:44.520 --> 02:04:48.000 couldn't do enough for them. And Uncle Silas he preached 2293 02:04:48.000 --> 02:04:52.239 them the blamedest, jumbledest idiotic sermons you ever struck, and 2294 02:04:52.319 --> 02:04:54.640 would tangle you up so you couldn't find your way 2295 02:04:54.640 --> 02:04:57.720 home in daylight. But the people never let on. But 2296 02:04:58.039 --> 02:05:02.119 they thought it was the clearest and brightest and elegantest 2297 02:05:02.119 --> 02:05:04.880 sermons that ever was. And they would set there and 2298 02:05:04.920 --> 02:05:08.600 cry for love and pity. But by George, they'd give 2299 02:05:08.720 --> 02:05:11.520 me the jim jambs and the fan TODs and caked 2300 02:05:11.600 --> 02:05:14.680 up my brains I had and turned them solid. But 2301 02:05:15.000 --> 02:05:17.760 by and by they loved the old man's intellects back 2302 02:05:17.800 --> 02:05:20.199 into him again, and he was as sound and his 2303 02:05:20.319 --> 02:05:23.119 skull as he ever was, which ain't no flattery, I reckon. 2304 02:05:23.720 --> 02:05:26.319 And so the whole family was as happy as birds, 2305 02:05:26.800 --> 02:05:30.039 and nobody could be gratefuller and lovinger than what they 2306 02:05:30.239 --> 02:05:33.119 was to Tom Sawyer, and the same to me, though 2307 02:05:33.239 --> 02:05:36.359 I hadn't done nothing. And when the two thousand dollars come, 2308 02:05:36.920 --> 02:05:39.720 Tom give half of it to me, and never told 2309 02:05:39.760 --> 02:05:44.000 anybody so, which didn't surprise me because I knowed him. 2310 02:05:45.600 --> 02:05:49.359 End of Chapter eleven and end of Tom Sawyer Detective