? ? ? ? "Yes."
? ? ? ? I hunched Tom, and whispers:
? ? ? ? "You going, right here in the day-break? That warn't the plan."
? ? ? ? "No, it warn't- but it's the plan now."
? ? ? ? So, drat him, we went along, but I didn't like it much. When we got in, we couldn't hardly see anything, it was so dark; but Jim was there, sure enough, and could see us; and he sings out:
? ? ? ? "Why, Huck! En good lan'! ain'dat Misto Tom?"
? ? ? ? I just knowed how it would be; I just expected it. I didn't know nothing to do; and if I had, I couldn't a done it; because that nigger busted in and says:
? ? ? ? "Why, de gracious sakes! do he know you genlmen?"
? ? ? ? We could see pretty well, now. Tom he looked at the nigger, steady and kind of wondering, and says:
? ? ? ? "Does who know us?"
? ? ? ? "Why, dish-yer runaway nigger."
? ? ? ? "I don't reckon he does; but what put that into your head?"
? ? ? ? "What put it dar? Didn' he jis' dis minute sing out like he knowed you?"
? ? ? ? Tom says, in a puzzled-up kind of way:
? ? ? ? "Well, that's mighty curious.
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