Tom Sawyer, Detective

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Марк Твен. Tom Sawyer, Detective

CHAPTER I. AN INVITATION FOR TOM AND HUCK

CHAPTER II. JAKE DUNLAP

CHAPTER III. A DIAMOND ROBBERY

CHAPTER IV. THE THREE SLEEPERS

CHAPTER V. A TRAGEDY IN THE WOODS

CHAPTER VI. PLANS TO SECURE THE DIAMONDS

CHAPTER VII. A NIGHT’S VIGIL

CHAPTER VIII. TALKING WITH THE GHOST

CHAPTER IX. FINDING OF JUBITER DUNLAP

CHAPTER X. THE ARREST OF UNCLE SILAS

CHAPTER XI. TOM SAWYER DISCOVERS THE MURDERERS

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WE had powerful good luck; because we got a chance in a stern-wheeler from away North which was bound for one of them bayous or one-horse rivers away down Louisiana way, and so we could go all the way down the Upper Mississippi and all the way down the Lower Mississippi to that farm in Arkansaw without having to change steamboats at St. Louis; not so very much short of a thousand miles at one pull.

A pretty lonesome boat; there warn’t but few passengers, and all old folks, that set around, wide apart, dozing, and was very quiet. We was four days getting out of the “upper river,” because we got aground so much. But it warn’t dull – couldn’t be for boys that was traveling, of course.

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Well, the man was astonished, of course; and first off he looked like he didn’t know whether to be scared, or glad, or both, or which, but finally he settled down to being glad; and then his color come back, though at first his face had turned pretty white. So we got to talking together while he et his breakfast. And he says:

“But I aint Jubiter Dunlap. I’d just as soon tell you who I am, though, if you’ll swear to keep mum, for I ain’t no Phillips, either.”

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