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1"Watchman your grandmother," I says; "there ain't nothing to watch but the texas and the pilot-house; and do you reckon
2anybody's going to resk his life for a texas and a pilot-house such a night as this, when it's likely to break up and
3wash off down the river any minute?" Jim couldn't say nothing to that, so he didn't try. "And besides," I says, "we
4might borrow something worth having out of the captain's stateroom. Seegars, I bet you--and cost five cents apiece,
5solid cash. Steamboat captains is always rich, and get sixty dollars a month, and they don't care a cent what a thing
6costs, you know, long as they want it. Stick a candle in your pocket; I can't rest, Jim, till we give her a rummaging.
7Do you reckon Tom Sawyer would ever go by this thing? Not for pie, he wouldn't. He'd call it an adventure--that's what
8he'd call it; and he'd land on that wreck if it was his last act. And wouldn't he throw style into it?--wouldn't he
9spread himself, nor nothing? Why, you'd think it was Christopher C'lumbus discovering Kingdom-Come. I wish Tom Sawyer
10was here." Jim he grumbled a little, but give in. He said we mustn't talk any more than we could help, and then talk
11mighty low. The lightning showed us the wreck again just in time, and we fetched the stabboard derrick, and made fast
12there. The deck was high out here. We went sneaking down the slope of it to labboard, in the dark, towards the texas,
13feeling our way slow with our feet, and spreading our hands out to fend off the guys, for it was so dark we couldn't see
14no sign of them. Pretty soon we struck the forward end of the skylight, and clumb on to it; and the next step fetched us
15in front of the captain's door, which was open, and by Jimminy, away down through the texas-hall we see a light! and all
16in the same second we seem to hear low voices in yonder! Jim whispered and said he was feeling powerful sick, and told
17me to come along. I says, all right, and was going to start for the raft; but just then I heard a voice wail out and
18say: "Oh, please don't, boys; I swear I won't ever tell!" Another voice said, pretty loud: "It's a lie, Jim Turner.
19You've acted this way before. You always want more'n your share of the truck, and you've always got it, too, because
20you've swore 't if you didn't you'd tell. But this time you've said it jest one time too many. You're the meanest,
21treacherousest hound in this country." By this time Jim was gone for the raft. I was just a-biling with curiosity; and I
22says to myself, Tom Sawyer wouldn't back out now, and so I won't either; I'm a-going to see what's going on here. So I
23dropped on my hands and knees in the little passage, and crept aft in the dark till there warn't but one stateroom
24betwixt me and the cross-hall of the texas. Then in there I see a man stretched on the floor and tied hand and foot, and
25two men standing over him, and one of them had a dim lantern in his hand, and the other one had a pistol. This one kept
26pointing the pistol at the man's head on the floor, and saying: "I'd like to! And I orter, too--a mean skunk!" The man
27on the floor would shrivel up and say, "Oh, please don't, Bill; I hain't ever goin' to tell." And every time he said
28that the man with the lantern would laugh and say: "'Deed you ain't! You never said no truer thing 'n that, you bet
29you." And once he said: "Hear him beg! and yit if we hadn't got the best of him and tied him he'd a killed us both. And
30what for? Jist for noth'n. Jist because we stood on our rights--that's what for. But I lay you ain't a-goin' to threaten
31nobody any more, Jim Turner. Put up that pistol, Bill." Bill says: "I don't want to, Jake Packard. I'm for killin'
32him--and didn't he kill old Hatfield jist the same way--and don't he deserve it?" "But I don't want him killed, and I've
33got my reasons for it." "Bless yo' heart for them words, Jake Packard! I'll never forgit you long's I live!" says the
34man on the floor, sort of blubbering. Packard didn't take no notice of that, but hung up his lantern on a nail and
35started towards where I was there in the dark, and motioned Bill to come. I crawfished as fast as I could about two
36yards, but the boat slanted so that I couldn't make very good time; so to keep from getting run over and catched I
37crawled into a stateroom on the upper side. The man came a-pawing along in the dark, and when Packard got to my
38stateroom, he says: "Here--come in here." And in he come, and Bill after him. But before they got in I was up in the
39upper berth, cornered, and sorry I come. Then they stood there, with their hands on the ledge of the berth, and talked.
40I couldn't see them, but I could tell where they was by the whisky they'd been having. I was glad I didn't drink whisky;
41but it wouldn't made much difference anyway, because most of the time they couldn't a treed me because I didn't breathe.
42I was too scared. And, besides, a body couldn't breathe and hear such talk. They talked low and earnest. Bill wanted to
43kill Turner. He says: "He's said he'll tell, and he will. If we was to give both our shares to him now it wouldn't make
44no difference after the row and the way we've served him. Shore's you're born, he'll turn State's evidence; now you hear
45me. I'm for putting him out of his troubles." "So'm I," says Packard, very quiet. "Blame it, I'd sorter begun to think
46you wasn't. Well, then, that's all right. Le's go and do it." "Hold on a minute; I hain't had my say yit. You listen to
47me. Shooting's good, but there's quieter ways if the thing's got to be done. But what I say is this: it ain't good sense
48to go court'n around after a halter if you can git at what you're up to in some way that's jist as good and at the same
49time don't bring you into no resks. Ain't that so?" "You bet it is. But how you goin' to manage it this time?" "Well, my
50idea is this: we'll rustle around and gather up whatever pickins we've overlooked in the staterooms, and shove for shore
51and hide the truck. Then we'll wait. Now I say it ain't a-goin' to be more'n two hours befo' this wrack breaks up and
52washes off down the river. See? He'll be drownded, and won't have nobody to blame for it but his own self. I reckon
53that's a considerble sight better 'n killin' of him. I'm unfavorable to killin' a man as long as you can git aroun' it;
54it ain't good sense, it ain't good morals. Ain't I right?" "Yes, I reck'n you are. But s'pose she don't break up and
55wash off?" "Well, we can wait the two hours anyway and see, can't we?" "All right, then; come along." So they started,
56and I lit out, all in a cold sweat, and scrambled forward. It was dark as pitch there; but I said, in a kind of a coarse
57whisper, "Jim!" and he answered up, right at my elbow, with a sort of a moan, and I says: "Quick, Jim, it ain't no time
58for fooling around and moaning; there's a gang of murderers in yonder, and if we don't hunt up their boat and set her
59drifting down the river so these fellows can't get away from the wreck there's one of 'em going to be in a bad fix. But
60if we find their boat we can put all of 'em in a bad fix--for the Sheriff 'll get 'em. Quick--hurry! I'll hunt the
61labboard side, you hunt the stabboard. You start at the raft, and--" "Oh, my lordy, lordy! Raf'? Dey ain' no raf' no
62mo'; she done broke loose en gone I--en here we is!"
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