"whoever nipped the whiskey in No. 2, nipped the money, too, I reckon

-anyways it's a goner for us, Tom."

"Huck, that money wasn't ever in No. 2!"

What!" Huck searched his comrade's face keenly. "Tom, have you got on

the track of that money again?"

Huck, it's in the cave!"

Huck's eyes blazed.

Say it again, Tom."

The money's in the cave!"

Tom--honest injun, now--is it fun, or earnest?"

Earnest, Huck--just as earnest as ever I was in my life. Will you go

in there with me and help get it out?"

"I bet I will! I will if it's where we can blaze our way to it and not

get lost."

Huck, we can do that without the least little bit of trouble in the

world."

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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer