Tom Sawyer, Detective

we landed at one of them little Missouri towns high up toward Iowa, and had supper at the tavern, and got a room upstairs with a cot and a double bed in it, but

oon as the whisky begun to take hold of Bud we stopped drinking, but we didn't l

by side, where they'd be handy. Then we stripped him and searched his seams and his pockets and his socks and the inside of his boots, and everything, and searched his bundle. Never found any di'monds. We found the screwdriver, and

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t up a drug store, and I reckon I'll fetch something that'

r noticed. They was just a shade large for me, but that was considerable better than being too small. I got my bag as I went

un to wonder what's the trouble. Another five and I says to myself he's getting real uneasy-he's walking the floor now. Another five, and I says to myself, there's two mile and a half behind me, and he's AWFUL uneasy-beginning to cuss, I reckon. Pretty soon I says to myself, forty minutes gone-he KNOWS the

n he got abreast he stopped and waited a little for me to come out; then he rode on again. But I didn't feel

went aboard and got this stateroom and put on these clothes and went up in the pilot-house-to watch, though I didn't reckon there was any need of it. I set there and played with my di

d this boat, he's got me like a rat in a trap. All he's got to do is to have me watched, and wait-wait till I slip ashore, thinking he is a thousand miles away, then slip after me and dog me to a good place and make me give up the di'monds, and then he'll-oh, I know what h

p his di'monds this way and that, admiring them and loving them; and when the light struck into them they WAS beautiful, sure; why, they seemed to kind of bust, and snap fire out all around. But all the same I jud

, and the wind blowed hard. Of course every boat-hand fixed a gunny sack and put it on like a bonnet, the way they do when they are toting wood, and we got one for Jake, and he slipped down aft with his hand-bag and come tramping forrard just like the rest, and walked ashore with them, and when we see him pass out of the light of the torch-basket and get swallowed up in the dark, we got our breath again and just felt grateful and splendid. But it was

trangers there, and then slip out about sundown and tell him. Said he would wait for us in a little bu

ad of down, but it wasn't likely, because maybe they knowed where he was from; more likely they would go right, and