THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER - online book

Original Illustrated Version By Mark Twain

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FOUND BUT NOT SAVED.                                       245
along. At the end of twenty steps the corridor ended in a "jumping-off place." Tom got down on his knees and felt below, and then as far around the corner as he could reach with his hands conveniently; he made an effort to stretch yet a little further to the right, and at that moment, not twenty yards away, a human hand, holding a candle, appeared from behind a rock ! Tom lifted up a glorious shout, and instantly that hand was followed by the body it belonged
A NEW TERROR.
to—Injun Joe's! Totn was paralyzed; he could not move. He was vastly gratified the next moment, to see the " Spaniard" take to his heels and get himself out of sight. Tom wondered that Joe had not recognized his voice and come over and killed him for testifying in court. But the echoes must have disguised the voice. Without doubt, that was it, he reasoned. Tom's