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1That night Tom and Huck were ready for their adventure. They hung about the neighborhood of the tavern until after nine,
2one watching the alley at a distance and the other the tavern door. Nobody entered the alley or left it; nobody
3resembling the Spaniard entered or left the tavern door. The night promised to be a fair one; so Tom went home with the
4understanding that if a considerable degree of darkness came on, Huck was to come and "maow," whereupon he would slip
5out and try the keys. But the night remained clear, and Huck closed his watch and retired to bed in an empty sugar
6hogshead about twelve. Tuesday the boys had the same ill luck. Also Wednesday. But Thursday night promised better. Tom
7slipped out in good season with his aunt's old tin lantern, and a large towel to blindfold it with. He hid the lantern
8in Huck's sugar hogshead and the watch began. An hour before midnight the tavern closed up and its lights (the only ones
9thereabouts) were put out. No Spaniard had been seen. Nobody had entered or left the alley. Everything was auspicious.
10The blackness of darkness reigned, the perfect stillness was interrupted only by occasional mutterings of distant
11thunder. Tom got his lantern, lit it in the hogshead, wrapped it closely in the towel, and the two adventurers crept in
12the gloom toward the tavern. Huck stood sentry and Tom felt his way into the alley. Then there was a season of waiting
13anxiety that weighed upon Huck's spirits like a mountain. He began to wish he could see a flash from the lantern--it
14would frighten him, but it would at least tell him that Tom was alive yet. It seemed hours since Tom had disappeared.
15Surely he must have fainted; maybe he was dead; maybe his heart had burst under terror and excitement. In his uneasiness
16Huck found himself drawing closer and closer to the alley; fearing all sorts of dreadful things, and momentarily
17expecting some catastrophe to happen that would take away his breath. There was not much to take away, for he seemed
18only able to inhale it by thimblefuls, and his heart would soon wear itself out, the way it was beating. Suddenly there
19was a flash of light and Tom came tearing by him: "Run!" said he; "run, for your life!" He needn't have repeated it;
20once was enough; Huck was making thirty or forty miles an hour before the repetition was uttered. The boys never stopped
21till they reached the shed of a deserted slaughter-house at the lower end of the village. Just as they got within its
22shelter the storm burst and the rain poured down. As soon as Tom got his breath he said: "Huck, it was awful! I tried
23two of the keys, just as soft as I could; but they seemed to make such a power of racket that I couldn't hardly get my
24breath I was so scared. They wouldn't turn in the lock, either. Well, without noticing what I was doing, I took hold of
25the knob, and open comes the door! It warn't locked! I hopped in, and shook off the towel, and, Great Caesar's Ghost!"
26"What!--what'd you see, Tom?" "Huck, I most stepped onto Injun Joe's hand!" "No!" "Yes! He was lying there, sound asleep
27on the floor, with his old patch on his eye and his arms spread out." "Lordy, what did you do? Did he wake up?" "No,
28never budged. Drunk, I reckon. I just grabbed that towel and started!" "I'd never 'a' thought of the towel, I bet!"
29"Well, I would. My aunt would make me mighty sick if I lost it." "Say, Tom, did you see that box?" "Huck, I didn't wait
30to look around. I didn't see the box, I didn't see the cross. I didn't see anything but a bottle and a tin cup on the
31floor by Injun Joe; yes, I saw two barrels and lots more bottles in the room. Don't you see, now, what's the matter with
32that ha'nted room?" "How?" "Why, it's ha'nted with whiskey! Maybe all the Temperance Taverns have got a ha'nted room,
33hey, Huck?" "Well, I reckon maybe that's so. Who'd 'a' thought such a thing? But say, Tom, now's a mighty good time to
34get that box, if Injun Joe's drunk." "It is, that! You try it!" Huck shuddered. "Well, no--I reckon not." "And I reckon
35not, Huck. Only one bottle alongside of Injun Joe ain't enough. If there'd been three, he'd be drunk enough and I'd do
36it." There was a long pause for reflection, and then Tom said: "Lookyhere, Huck, less not try that thing any more till
37we know Injun Joe's not in there. It's too scary. Now, if we watch every night, we'll be dead sure to see him go out,
38some time or other, and then we'll snatch that box quicker'n lightning." "Well, I'm agreed. I'll watch the whole night
39long, and I'll do it every night, too, if you'll do the other part of the job." "All right, I will. All you got to do is
40to trot up Hooper Street a block and maow--and if I'm asleep, you throw some gravel at the window and that'll fetch me."
41"Agreed, and good as wheat!" "Now, Huck, the storm's over, and I'll go home. It'll begin to be daylight in a couple of
42hours. You go back and watch that long, will you?" "I said I would, Tom, and I will. I'll ha'nt that tavern every night
43for a year! I'll sleep all day and I'll stand watch all night." "That's all right. Now, where you going to sleep?" "In
44Ben Rogers' hayloft. He lets me, and so does his pap's nigger man, Uncle Jake. I tote water for Uncle Jake whenever he
45wants me to, and any time I ask him he gives me a little something to eat if he can spare it. That's a mighty good
46nigger, Tom. He likes me, becuz I don't ever act as if I was above him. Sometime I've set right down and eat with him.
47But you needn't tell that. A body's got to do things when he's awful hungry he wouldn't want to do as a steady thing."
48"Well, if I don't want you in the daytime, I'll let you sleep. I won't come bothering around. Any time you see
49something's up, in the night, just skip right around and maow."
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