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1Tom arrived at home in a dreary mood, and the first thing his aunt said to him showed him that he had brought his
2sorrows to an unpromising market: "Tom, I've a notion to skin you alive!" "Auntie, what have I done?" "Well, you've done
3enough. Here I go over to Sereny Harper, like an old softy, expecting I'm going to make her believe all that rubbage
4about that dream, when lo and behold you she'd found out from Joe that you was over here and heard all the talk we had
5that night. Tom, I don't know what is to become of a boy that will act like that. It makes me feel so bad to think you
6could let me go to Sereny Harper and make such a fool of myself and never say a word." This was a new aspect of the
7thing. His smartness of the morning had seemed to Tom a good joke before, and very ingenious. It merely looked mean and
8shabby now. He hung his head and could not think of anything to say for a moment. Then he said: "Auntie, I wish I hadn't
9done it--but I didn't think." "Oh, child, you never think. You never think of anything but your own selfishness. You
10could think to come all the way over here from Jackson's Island in the night to laugh at our troubles, and you could
11think to fool me with a lie about a dream; but you couldn't ever think to pity us and save us from sorrow." "Auntie, I
12know now it was mean, but I didn't mean to be mean. I didn't, honest. And besides, I didn't come over here to laugh at
13you that night." "What did you come for, then?" "It was to tell you not to be uneasy about us, because we hadn't got
14drownded." "Tom, Tom, I would be the thankfullest soul in this world if I could believe you ever had as good a thought
15as that, but you know you never did--and I know it, Tom." "Indeed and 'deed I did, auntie--I wish I may never stir if I
16didn't." "Oh, Tom, don't lie--don't do it. It only makes things a hundred times worse." "It ain't a lie, auntie; it's
17the truth. I wanted to keep you from grieving--that was all that made me come." "I'd give the whole world to believe
18that--it would cover up a power of sins, Tom. I'd 'most be glad you'd run off and acted so bad. But it ain't reasonable;
19because, why didn't you tell me, child?" "Why, you see, when you got to talking about the funeral, I just got all full
20of the idea of our coming and hiding in the church, and I couldn't somehow bear to spoil it. So I just put the bark back
21in my pocket and kept mum." "What bark?" "The bark I had wrote on to tell you we'd gone pirating. I wish, now, you'd
22waked up when I kissed you--I do, honest." The hard lines in his aunt's face relaxed and a sudden tenderness dawned in
23her eyes. "Did you kiss me, Tom?" "Why, yes, I did." "Are you sure you did, Tom?" "Why, yes, I did, auntie--certain
24sure." "What did you kiss me for, Tom?" "Because I loved you so, and you laid there moaning and I was so sorry." The
25words sounded like truth. The old lady could not hide a tremor in her voice when she said: "Kiss me again, Tom!--and be
26off with you to school, now, and don't bother me any more." The moment he was gone, she ran to a closet and got out the
27ruin of a jacket which Tom had gone pirating in. Then she stopped, with it in her hand, and said to herself: "No, I
28don't dare. Poor boy, I reckon he's lied about it--but it's a blessed, blessed lie, there's such a comfort come from it.
29I hope the Lord--I know the Lord will forgive him, because it was such good-heartedness in him to tell it. But I don't
30want to find out it's a lie. I won't look." She put the jacket away, and stood by musing a minute. Twice she put out her
31hand to take the garment again, and twice she refrained. Once more she ventured, and this time she fortified herself
32with the thought: "It's a good lie--it's a good lie--I won't let it grieve me." So she sought the jacket pocket. A
33moment later she was reading Tom's piece of bark through flowing tears and saying: "I could forgive the boy, now, if
34he'd committed a million sins!"
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