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1A few minutes later Tom was in the shoal water of the bar, wading toward the Illinois shore. Before the depth reached
2his middle he was halfway over; the current would permit no more wading, now, so he struck out confidently to swim the
3remaining hundred yards. He swam quartering upstream, but still was swept downward rather faster than he had expected.
4However, he reached the shore finally, and drifted along till he found a low place and drew himself out. He put his hand
5on his jacket pocket, found his piece of bark safe, and then struck through the woods, following the shore, with
6streaming garments. Shortly before ten o'clock he came out into an open place opposite the village, and saw the
7ferryboat lying in the shadow of the trees and the high bank. Everything was quiet under the blinking stars. He crept
8down the bank, watching with all his eyes, slipped into the water, swam three or four strokes and climbed into the skiff
9that did "yawl" duty at the boat's stern. He laid himself down under the thwarts and waited, panting. Presently the
10cracked bell tapped and a voice gave the order to "cast off." A minute or two later the skiff's head was standing high
11up, against the boat's swell, and the voyage was begun. Tom felt happy in his success, for he knew it was the boat's
12last trip for the night. At the end of a long twelve or fifteen minutes the wheels stopped, and Tom slipped overboard
13and swam ashore in the dusk, landing fifty yards downstream, out of danger of possible stragglers. He flew along
14unfrequented alleys, and shortly found himself at his aunt's back fence. He climbed over, approached the "ell," and
15looked in at the sitting-room window, for a light was burning there. There sat Aunt Polly, Sid, Mary, and Joe Harper's
16mother, grouped together, talking. They were by the bed, and the bed was between them and the door. Tom went to the door
17and began to softly lift the latch; then he pressed gently and the door yielded a crack; he continued pushing
18cautiously, and quaking every time it creaked, till he judged he might squeeze through on his knees; so he put his head
19through and began, warily. "What makes the candle blow so?" said Aunt Polly. Tom hurried up. "Why, that door's open, I
20believe. Why, of course it is. No end of strange things now. Go 'long and shut it, Sid." Tom disappeared under the bed
21just in time. He lay and "breathed" himself for a time, and then crept to where he could almost touch his aunt's foot.
22"But as I was saying," said Aunt Polly, "he warn't bad, so to say--only mischeevous. Only just giddy, and harum-scarum,
23you know. He warn't any more responsible than a colt. He never meant any harm, and he was the best-hearted boy that ever
24was"--and she began to cry. "It was just so with my Joe--always full of his devilment, and up to every kind of mischief,
25but he was just as unselfish and kind as he could be--and laws bless me, to think I went and whipped him for taking that
26cream, never once recollecting that I throwed it out myself because it was sour, and I never to see him again in this
27world, never, never, never, poor abused boy!" And Mrs. Harper sobbed as if her heart would break. "I hope Tom's better
28off where he is," said Sid, "but if he'd been better in some ways--" "Sid!" Tom felt the glare of the old lady's eye,
29though he could not see it. "Not a word against my Tom, now that he's gone! God'll take care of him--never you trouble
30yourself, sir! Oh, Mrs. Harper, I don't know how to give him up! I don't know how to give him up! He was such a comfort
31to me, although he tormented my old heart out of me, 'most." "The Lord giveth and the Lord hath taken away--Blessed be
32the name of the Lord! But it's so hard--Oh, it's so hard! Only last Saturday my Joe busted a firecracker right under my
33nose and I knocked him sprawling. Little did I know then, how soon--Oh, if it was to do over again I'd hug him and bless
34him for it." "Yes, yes, yes, I know just how you feel, Mrs. Harper, I know just exactly how you feel. No longer ago than
35yesterday noon, my Tom took and filled the cat full of Pain-killer, and I did think the cretur would tear the house
36down. And God forgive me, I cracked Tom's head with my thimble, poor boy, poor dead boy. But he's out of all his
37troubles now. And the last words I ever heard him say was to reproach--" But this memory was too much for the old lady,
38and she broke entirely down. Tom was snuffling, now, himself--and more in pity of himself than anybody else. He could
39hear Mary crying, and putting in a kindly word for him from time to time. He began to have a nobler opinion of himself
40than ever before. Still, he was sufficiently touched by his aunt's grief to long to rush out from under the bed and
41overwhelm her with joy--and the theatrical gorgeousness of the thing appealed strongly to his nature, too, but he
42resisted and lay still. He went on listening, and gathered by odds and ends that it was conjectured at first that the
43boys had got drowned while taking a swim; then the small raft had been missed; next, certain boys said the missing lads
44had promised that the village should "hear something" soon; the wise-heads had "put this and that together" and decided
45that the lads had gone off on that raft and would turn up at the next town below, presently; but toward noon the raft
46had been found, lodged against the Missouri shore some five or six miles below the village--and then hope perished; they
47must be drowned, else hunger would have driven them home by nightfall if not sooner. It was believed that the search for
48the bodies had been a fruitless effort merely because the drowning must have occurred in mid-channel, since the boys,
49being good swimmers, would otherwise have escaped to shore. This was Wednesday night. If the bodies continued missing
50until Sunday, all hope would be given over, and the funerals would be preached on that morning. Tom shuddered. Mrs.
51Harper gave a sobbing goodnight and turned to go. Then with a mutual impulse the two bereaved women flung themselves
52into each other's arms and had a good, consoling cry, and then parted. Aunt Polly was tender far beyond her wont, in her
53goodnight to Sid and Mary. Sid snuffled a bit and Mary went off crying with all her heart. Aunt Polly knelt down and
54prayed for Tom so touchingly, so appealingly, and with such measureless love in her words and her old trembling voice,
55that he was weltering in tears again, long before she was through. He had to keep still long after she went to bed, for
56she kept making broken-hearted ejaculations from time to time, tossing unrestfully, and turning over. But at last she
57was still, only moaning a little in her sleep. Now the boy stole out, rose gradually by the bedside, shaded the
58candle-light with his hand, and stood regarding her. His heart was full of pity for her. He took out his sycamore scroll
59and placed it by the candle. But something occurred to him, and he lingered considering. His face lighted with a happy
60solution of his thought; he put the bark hastily in his pocket. Then he bent over and kissed the faded lips, and
61straightway made his stealthy exit, latching the door behind him. He threaded his way back to the ferry landing, found
62nobody at large there, and walked boldly on board the boat, for he knew she was tenantless except that there was a
63watchman, who always turned in and slept like a graven image. He untied the skiff at the stern, slipped into it, and was
64soon rowing cautiously upstream. When he had pulled a mile above the village, he started quartering across and bent
65himself stoutly to his work. He hit the landing on the other side neatly, for this was a familiar bit of work to him. He
66was moved to capture the skiff, arguing that it might be considered a ship and therefore legitimate prey for a pirate,
67but he knew a thorough search would be made for it and that might end in revelations. So he stepped ashore and entered
68the woods. He sat down and took a long rest, torturing himself meanwhile to keep awake, and then started warily down the
69home-stretch. The night was far spent. It was broad daylight before he found himself fairly abreast the island bar. He
70rested again until the sun was well up and gilding the great river with its splendor, and then he plunged into the
71stream. A little later he paused, dripping, upon the threshold of the camp, and heard Joe say: "No, Tom's true-blue,
72Huck, and he'll come back. He won't desert. He knows that would be a disgrace to a pirate, and Tom's too proud for that
73sort of thing. He's up to something or other. Now I wonder what?" "Well, the things is ours, anyway, ain't they?"
74"Pretty near, but not yet, Huck. The writing says they are if he ain't back here to breakfast." "Which he is!" exclaimed
75Tom, with fine dramatic effect, stepping grandly into camp. A sumptuous breakfast of bacon and fish was shortly
76provided, and as the boys set to work upon it, Tom recounted (and adorned) his adventures. They were a vain and boastful
77company of heroes when the tale was done. Then Tom hid himself away in a shady nook to sleep till noon, and the other
78pirates got ready to fish and explore.
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