THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER - online book

Original Illustrated Version By Mark Twain

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	upon the hour of noon the whole village was suddenly electri­fied with the ghastly news. No need of the as yet undreamed-of telegraph; the tale flew from man to man, from group to group, from house to house, with little less than telegraphic speed. Of course the schoolmaster gave holi­day for that afternoon; the town would have thought strangely of him if he had not. A gory knife had been found close to the murdered man, and it had been recognized by somebody as belong­ing to Muff Potter—so the story ran. And it was said that a belated citizen had come upon Potter washing himself in the " branch " about one or two o'clock in the morning, and that Potter had at once sneaked off— suspicious 101