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Twain, Mark

"The Adventures Of Tom Sawyer"

One of those omniscient and awe-inspiring marvels, a detective, came up from St. Louis, moused around, shook his head, looked wise, and made that sort of astounding success which members of that craft usually achieve. That is to say he "found a clue." But you can't hang a "clue" for murder and so after that detective had got through and gone home, Tom felt just as insecure as he was before.


? ? ? ? The slow days drifted on, and each left behind it a slightly lightened weight of apprehension.



Chapter 25 - Seeking the Buried Treasure


? ? ? ? THERE COMES A TIME in every rightly constructed boy's life when he has a raging desire to go somewhere and dig for hidden treasure. This desire suddenly came upon Tom one day. He sallied out to find Joe Harper, but failed of success. Next he sought Ben Rogers; he had gone fishing. Presently he stumbled upon Huck Finn the Red-Handed. Huck would answer. Tom took him to a private place and opened the matter to him confidentially. Huck was willing. Huck was always willing to take a hand in any enterprise that offered entertainment and required no capital, for he had a troublesome superabundance of that sort of time which is not money.


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