Questions, questions, questions ...
Muff Potter began to look more and more unhappy. Then the judge said: 'Call
Thomas Sawyer!'
St Petersburg sat up. What did young Tom Sawyer know?
Everybody looked at
him, and waited.
'Thomas Sawyer, where were you on the seventeenth of June, at the hour of
midnight?'
In the graveyard.'
'Why?'
'I went there to see ghosts. With a - a - dead cat.'
St Petersburg laughed, and the judge looked angry. 'And where were you in the
graveyard, Thomas?'
'Behind the trees near Hoss Williams' grave.'
Injun Joe's face suddenly went white.
'Now, my boy,' said the judge. 'Tell us your story.'
And so Tom told his story, and St Petersburg sat and listened to him with open
mouths.
'. . .
and then Muff Potter fell, and Injun Joe jumped with the knife and — '
Crash! Injun joe jumped through the window, and was out and away in a second.
St Petersburg loved Tom for a week. But Tom was not happy. Injun Joe was not in
jail, and he was a dangerous man. Tom slept badly for weeks.
The slow summer days went by. Injun Joe did not come
back to St Petersburg, and
Tom began to forget.
Chapter four
Treasure
There is a time in every boy's life when he wants to go and dig for treasure. And that
time came for Tom.
So, one hot summer's day, he went to find Huck.
Huck liked the idea of treasure. 'Where are we going to dig?' he asked.
An old dead tree is best.'
'Who puts the treasure under old trees?'
'Robbers,' said Tom. 'And then they go away, or they forget to come back for the
treasure.'
'There's a dead tree on Cardiff Hill,' said Huck. 'Let's go there! I've got an old
pick and shovel.'
It was three
miles to the old tree, and the boys arrived tired and hot. They dug for
an hour or two, but they didn't find any treasure. Then they stopped, and Tom looked
down at an old house at the foot of the hill.
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