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its. They went on, and presently entered and followed Tom’s
other corridor until they reached the ‘jumping-off place.’
The candles revealed the fact that it was not really a prec-
ipice, but only a steep clay hill twenty or thirty feet high.
Tom whispered:
‘Now I’ll show you something, Huck.’
He held his candle aloft and said:
‘Look as far around the corner as you can. Do you see
that? There — on the big rock over yonder — done with
candle-smoke.’
‘Tom, it’s a CROSS!’
‘NOW where’s your Number Two? ‘UNDER THE
CROSS,’ hey? Right yonder’s where I saw Injun Joe poke up
his candle, Huck!’
Huck stared at the mystic sign awhile, and then said with
a shaky voice:
‘Tom, less git out of here!’
‘What! and leave the treasure?’
‘Yes — leave it. Injun Joe’s ghost is round about there,
certain.’
‘No it ain’t, Huck, no it ain’t. It would ha’nt the place
where he died — away out at the mouth of the cave — five
mile from here.’
‘No, Tom, it wouldn’t. It would hang round the money. I
know the ways of ghosts, and so do you.’
Tom began to fear that Huck was right. Misgivings gath-
ered in his mind. But presently an idea occurred to him
—
‘Lookyhere, Huck, what fools we’re making of ourselves!