1 We couldn't handle him, of course; he would a flung us into Illinois.
2 I said, all right; then the thing for us to do was to go for the magicians.
3 So I said I didn't care what was the reason they didn't get us as long as they didn't.
4 Anyways, they stayed away from us, and if my building the fire never fooled them it warn't no fault of mine.
5 He listened some more; then he come tiptoeing down and stood right between us; we could a touched him, nearly.
6 The lightning showed us the wreck again just in time, and we fetched the stabboard derrick, and made fast there.
7 Now the way that the book winds up is this: Tom and me found the money that the robbers hid in the cave, and it made us rich.
8 He said the first towhead stood for a man that would try to do us some good, but the current was another man that would get us away from him.
9 WE judged that three nights more would fetch us to Cairo, at the bottom of Illinois, where the Ohio River comes in, and that was what we was after.
10 After a long time the rain let up, but the clouds stayed, and the lightning kept whimpering, and by and by a flash showed us a black thing ahead, floating, and we made for it.
11 We had mountains on the Missouri shore and heavy timber on the Illinois side, and the channel was down the Missouri shore at that place, so we warn't afraid of anybody running across us.
12 Jim said if we had the canoe hid in a good place, and had all the traps in the cavern, we could rush there if anybody was to come to the island, and they would never find us without dogs.
13 The whoops was warnings that would come to us every now and then, and if we didn't try hard to make out to understand them they'd just take us into bad luck, 'stead of keeping us out of it.'
14 He said it would fetch bad luck; and besides, he said, he might come and ha'nt us; he said a man that warn't buried was more likely to go a-ha'nting around than one that was planted and comfortable.
15 We busted it up, and chased the children up the hollow; but we never got anything but some doughnuts and jam, though Ben Rogers got a rag doll, and Jo Harper got a hymn-book and a tract; and then the teacher charged in, and made us drop everything and cut.
16 Well, when Tom and me got to the edge of the hilltop we looked away down into the village and could see three or four lights twinkling, where there was sick folks, maybe; and the stars over us was sparkling ever so fine; and down by the village was the river, a whole mile broad, and awful still and grand.
17 While we laid off after breakfast to sleep up, both of us being about wore out, I got to thinking that if I could fix up some way to keep pap and the widow from trying to follow me, it would be a certainer thing than trusting to luck to get far enough off before they missed me; you see, all kinds of things might happen.
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