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sick-room; and had a high talk; and Tom give Jim forty dollars for being

prisoner for us so patient, and doing it up so good, and Jim was pleased most to

death, and busted out, and says: ssssssssss

"Dah, now, Huck, what I tell you? -- what I

tell you up dah on Jackson islan'? I tole you I

got a hairy breas', en what's de sign un it; en I

Me you I ben rich wunst, en gwineter to be rich

agin; en it's come true; en heah she is I Dah,

now! doan' talk to me -- signs is signs, mine

I tell you; en I knowed jis' 's well 'at I 'uz

gwineter be rich agin as I's a stannin' heah dis

minute!" ssssssssss

And then Tom he talked along, and talked

along, and says, le's all three slide out of here,

one of these nights, and get an outfit, and go for

howling adventures amongst the Injuns, over in

the Territory, for a couple of weeks or two; and

I says, all right, that suits me, but I aint got no

money for to buy the outfit, and I reckon I couldn't get none from home, because

it's likely pap's been back before now, and got it all away from Judge Thatcher

and drunk it up. ssssssssss

"No he hain't," Tom says; "it's all there, yet -- six thousand dollars and

more; and your pap hain't ever been back since. Hadn't when I come away,

anyhow." ssssssssss

Jim says, kind of solemn:

"He ain't a comin' back no mo', Huck."

I says: ssssssssss

"Why, Jim?" ssssssssss

"Nemmine why, Huck -- but he ain't comin' back no mo'."

But I kept at him; so at last he says:

"Doan' you 'member de house dat was float'n down de river, en dey wuz a

man in dah, kivered up, en I went in en unkivered him and didn' let you

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