Next they wanted to look up-stairs.
This was something like cutting off retreat, but they got to daring each other, and of course there could be but one result--they threw their tools into a corner and made the ascent.

Up there were the same signs of decay.

In one corner they found a closet that promised mystery, but the promise was a fraud--there was nothing in it.

Their courage was up now and well in hand.

They were about to go down and begin work when-- "Sh!" said Tom.
"What is it ?" whispered Huck, blanching with fright.
"Sh!...