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1As the earliest suspicion of dawn appeared on Sunday morning, Huck came groping up the hill and rapped gently at the old
2Welshman's door. The inmates were asleep, but it was a sleep that was set on a hair-trigger, on account of the exciting
3episode of the night. A call came from a window: "Who's there!" Huck's scared voice answered in a low tone: "Please let
4me in! It's only Huck Finn!" "It's a name that can open this door night or day, lad!--and welcome!" These were strange
5words to the vagabond boy's ears, and the pleasantest he had ever heard. He could not recollect that the closing word
6had ever been applied in his case before. The door was quickly unlocked, and he entered. Huck was given a seat and the
7old man and his brace of tall sons speedily dressed themselves. "Now, my boy, I hope you're good and hungry, because
8breakfast will be ready as soon as the sun's up, and we'll have a piping hot one, too--make yourself easy about that! I
9and the boys hoped you'd turn up and stop here last night." "I was awful scared," said Huck, "and I run. I took out when
10the pistols went off, and I didn't stop for three mile. I've come now becuz I wanted to know about it, you know; and I
11come before daylight becuz I didn't want to run across them devils, even if they was dead." "Well, poor chap, you do
12look as if you'd had a hard night of it--but there's a bed here for you when you've had your breakfast. No, they ain't
13dead, lad--we are sorry enough for that. You see we knew right where to put our hands on them, by your description; so
14we crept along on tiptoe till we got within fifteen feet of them--dark as a cellar that sumach path was--and just then I
15found I was going to sneeze. It was the meanest kind of luck! I tried to keep it back, but no use--'twas bound to come,
16and it did come! I was in the lead with my pistol raised, and when the sneeze started those scoundrels a-rustling to get
17out of the path, I sung out, 'Fire boys!' and blazed away at the place where the rustling was. So did the boys. But they
18were off in a jiffy, those villains, and we after them, down through the woods. I judge we never touched them. They
19fired a shot apiece as they started, but their bullets whizzed by and didn't do us any harm. As soon as we lost the
20sound of their feet we quit chasing, and went down and stirred up the constables. They got a posse together, and went
21off to guard the river bank, and as soon as it is light the sheriff and a gang are going to beat up the woods. My boys
22will be with them presently. I wish we had some sort of description of those rascals--'twould help a good deal. But you
23couldn't see what they were like, in the dark, lad, I suppose?" "Oh yes; I saw them downtown and follered them."
24"Splendid! Describe them--describe them, my boy!" "One's the old deaf and dumb Spaniard that's ben around here once or
25twice, and t'other's a mean-looking, ragged--" "That's enough, lad, we know the men! Happened on them in the woods back
26of the widow's one day, and they slunk away. Off with you, boys, and tell the sheriff--get your breakfast tomorrow
27morning!" The Welshman's sons departed at once. As they were leaving the room Huck sprang up and exclaimed: "Oh, please
28don't tell anybody it was me that blowed on them! Oh, please!" "All right if you say it, Huck, but you ought to have the
29credit of what you did." "Oh no, no! Please don't tell!" When the young men were gone, the old Welshman said: "They
30won't tell--and I won't. But why don't you want it known?" Huck would not explain, further than to say that he already
31knew too much about one of those men and would not have the man know that he knew anything against him for the whole
32world--he would be killed for knowing it, sure. The old man promised secrecy once more, and said: "How did you come to
33follow these fellows, lad? Were they looking suspicious?" Huck was silent while he framed a duly cautious reply. Then he
34said: "Well, you see, I'm a kind of a hard lot,--least everybody says so, and I don't see nothing agin it--and sometimes
35I can't sleep much, on account of thinking about it and sort of trying to strike out a new way of doing. That was the
36way of it last night. I couldn't sleep, and so I come along upstreet 'bout midnight, a-turning it all over, and when I
37got to that old shackly brick store by the Temperance Tavern, I backed up agin the wall to have another think. Well,
38just then along comes these two chaps slipping along close by me, with something under their arm, and I reckoned they'd
39stole it. One was a-smoking, and t'other one wanted a light; so they stopped right before me and the cigars lit up their
40faces and I see that the big one was the deaf and dumb Spaniard, by his white whiskers and the patch on his eye, and
41t'other one was a rusty, ragged-looking devil." "Could you see the rags by the light of the cigars?" This staggered Huck
42for a moment. Then he said: "Well, I don't know--but somehow it seems as if I did." "Then they went on, and you--"
43"Follered 'em--yes. That was it. I wanted to see what was up--they sneaked along so. I dogged 'em to the widder's stile,
44and stood in the dark and heard the ragged one beg for the widder, and the Spaniard swear he'd spile her looks just as I
45told you and your two--" "What! The deaf and dumb man said all that!" Huck had made another terrible mistake! He was
46trying his best to keep the old man from getting the faintest hint of who the Spaniard might be, and yet his tongue
47seemed determined to get him into trouble in spite of all he could do. He made several efforts to creep out of his
48scrape, but the old man's eye was upon him and he made blunder after blunder. Presently the Welshman said: "My boy,
49don't be afraid of me. I wouldn't hurt a hair of your head for all the world. No--I'd protect you--I'd protect you. This
50Spaniard is not deaf and dumb; you've let that slip without intending it; you can't cover that up now. You know
51something about that Spaniard that you want to keep dark. Now trust me--tell me what it is, and trust me--I won't betray
52you." Huck looked into the old man's honest eyes a moment, then bent over and whispered in his ear: "'Tain't a
53Spaniard--it's Injun Joe!" The Welshman almost jumped out of his chair. In a moment he said: "It's all plain enough,
54now. When you talked about notching ears and slitting noses I judged that that was your own embellishment, because white
55men don't take that sort of revenge. But an Injun! That's a different matter altogether." During breakfast the talk went
56on, and in the course of it the old man said that the last thing which he and his sons had done, before going to bed,
57was to get a lantern and examine the stile and its vicinity for marks of blood. They found none, but captured a bulky
58bundle of-- "Of what?" If the words had been lightning they could not have leaped with a more stunning suddenness from
59Huck's blanched lips. His eyes were staring wide, now, and his breath suspended--waiting for the answer. The Welshman
60started--stared in return--three seconds--five seconds--ten--then replied: "Of burglar's tools. Why, what's the matter
61with you?" Huck sank back, panting gently, but deeply, unutterably grateful. The Welshman eyed him gravely,
62curiously--and presently said: "Yes, burglar's tools. That appears to relieve you a good deal. But what did give you
63that turn? What were you expecting we'd found?" Huck was in a close place--the inquiring eye was upon him--he would have
64given anything for material for a plausible answer--nothing suggested itself--the inquiring eye was boring deeper and
65deeper--a senseless reply offered--there was no time to weigh it, so at a venture he uttered it--feebly: "Sunday-school
66books, maybe." Poor Huck was too distressed to smile, but the old man laughed loud and joyously, shook up the details of
67his anatomy from head to foot, and ended by saying that such a laugh was money in a man's pocket, because it cut down
68the doctor's bill like everything. Then he added:
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