[The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)]@TWC D-Link bookThe Adventures of Tom Sawyer CHAPTERXXXIII
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Tom whispered: "Now I'll show you something, Huck." He held his candle aloft and said: "Look as far around the corner as you can.
Do you see that? There--on the big rock over yonder--done with candle-smoke." "Tom, it's a CROSS!" "NOW where's your Number Two? 'UNDER THE CROSS,' hey? Right yonder's where I saw Injun Joe poke up his candle, Huck!" Huck stared at the mystic sign awhile, and then said with a shaky voice: "Tom, less git out of here!" "What! and leave the treasure ?" "Yes--leave it.
Injun Joe's ghost is round about there, certain." "No it ain't, Huck, no it ain't.
It would ha'nt the place where he died--away out at the mouth of the cave--five mile from here." "No, Tom, it wouldn't.
It would hang round the money.
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