Tom Sawyer, Detective

oud to have such a rattling curiosity among them. They had him to breakfast, they had him to dinner, they had him to supper; they kept him loaded up wi

te around, and a pencil; and people wrote questions on it and he wrote answers; but there warn't anybody could read his writing but Brace Dunlap. Brace said he couldn't read it very good, but he could manage to d

. He let him have a little log-cabin all to himself, and had his

and Tom didn't let on that we had knowed him before, and he didn't let on that he had knowed us before. The family talked their troubles out before him t

l strange about it. Another and another day went by; then there was a report got around that praps he was murdered. You bet it made a big stir! Everybody's tongue was clacking away after that. Saturday two or three gangs turned out and hunted the woods to see i

day night he didn't sleep any, hardly, trying to think up a plan; and towards daylig

on your clothes-I'v

the dark towards the village. Old Jeff Hooker had a

, Tom-and besides, i

ind it. If he's been murdered and buried, they wouldn't bury him deep, it ain't likely, and if the d

ng to find the corpse-no, he was going to get on the track of that murderer and hunt HIM down, too; and not only that, but he was going to stick to him till-"Well," I says, "you better find

led him, a

else. What good can it do you to throw cold water on that corpse and get up that selfish theory that there ain't been any murder? None in the world.

't mean nothing. Fix it any way you want it. HE ain't any conseque

ything about bei

e. Any way you druther have it, tha

it, Huck Finn; nobody said anyth

mping along, studying. He begun to get

it looking, and then go ahead and hunt up the murderer. It won't only be an honor to us, but it'll be

n the whole business when we got to his bla

o find. Everybody's quit looking, and they're right. Soon as they come to think, they knowed there warn't no

, he

't no fool. What do

mes it's for

are. Now who ever had anything agin that poor trifling no-acc

killing a person before, and now he sees it warn't likely anybody would have that

ry? B'gosh, that must 'a' been it, Tom! Yes, sirree, I reckon we've s

e was ashamed he had come, and he wished he hadn't. But old Hooker never let up on him. He raked up everything a person ever could want to kill another person about, and a

spell after all this work. He'll come pottering back in a couple of weeks, and then how'll y

uldn't back down after all this, so he said, "All right, unchain him;" and t

und ever so friendly, and powerful glad to be free and have a holiday; but Tom was so cut up he couldn't take any intrust in him, and said he wished he'd s

ner of our tobacker field we heard the dog set up a long howl in there, and we went to the place and he was scrat

come and stood there we looked at one another and never said a word. When the dog had dug down only a few i

y, Huck-i

They got a spade at the crib and dug out the body, and you never see such an exciteme

t's his clothes,

est, and me and Tom lit out for the house. Tom was all afire and 'most out of breath

ng and given it up; and if it hadn't a been for us it never WOULD 'a' been found; and he WAS murdered too-they done

ished, but Uncle Silas fell right forward out

, you've fo