If he did not do it, then the adventure would be proved to have been only a dream.
"Hello, Huck!" "Hello, yourself." Silence, for a minute.
"Tom, if we'd 'a' left the blame tools at the dead tree, we'd 'a' got the money.

Oh, ain't it awful!" "'Tain't a dream, then, 'tain't a dream! Somehow I most wish it was.
Dog'd if I don't, Huck." "What ain't a dream ?" "Oh, that thing yesterday.

I been half thinking it was." "Dream! If them stairs hadn't broke down you'd 'a' seen how much dream it was! I've had dreams enough all night--with that patch-eyed Spanish devil going for me all through 'em--rot him!" "No, not rot him.

FIND him! Track the money!" "Tom, we'll never find him.

A feller don't have only one chance for such a pile--and that one's lost.