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Today we'll be continuing The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain.
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Chapter 27 the adventure of the day mightily tormented Tom's dreams that night.
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Four times he had his hands on that rich treasure, and four times it wasted to nothingness in his fingers.
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Asleep forsook him, and wakefulness brought back the hard reality of his misfortune.
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As he lay in the early morning recalling the incidents of his great adventure, he noticed that they seemed curiously subdued and far away, somewhat as if they had happened in another world or in a time long gone by.
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Then it occurred to him that the great adventure itself must be a dream.
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There was one very strong argument in favor of this idea, namely, that the quality of coin he had seen was too vast to be real.
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He had never seen as much as $50 in one mass before, and he was like all boys of his age and station in life, in that he imagined that all references to hundreds and thousands were mere fanciful forms of speech, and that no such sums really existed in the world.
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He never had supposed for a moment.
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That so large a sum as $100 was to be found in actual money in anyone's possession.
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If his notions of hidden treasure had been analyzed, they would have been found to consist of a handful of real dimes and a bushel of vague, splendid ungraspable dollars.
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But the incidents of his adventure grew sensibly sharper and clearer under the attrition of thinking them over.
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And so he presently found himself leaning to the impression that the thing might not have been a dream after all.
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This uncertainty must be swept away.
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He would s***** a hurried breakfast and go and find Huck.
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Huck was sitting on the gun whale of a flatboat listlessly, dangling his feet in the water and looking very melancholy.
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Tom concluded to let Huck lead up to the subject.
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If he did not do it, then the adventure would be proved to have been only a dream.
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Hello, Huck.
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Hello yourself.
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Silence for a minute, Tom.
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If we'd have left the blame tools at the Dead Tree, we'd have got the money.
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Oh, ain't it awful?
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Taint a dream, then?
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Taint a dream.
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Somehow I most wish it was.
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Dogged if I don't talk.
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What ain't a dream?
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Oh, that thing yesterday.
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I've been half thinking it was dream.
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If them stairs hadn't broke down, you'd have seen how much dream it was.
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I've had dreams enough all night with that patch eyed devil going for me all through him.
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Rod him.
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No, not rod him.
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Find him.
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Track the money.
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Tom will never find him.
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A feller don't have only one chance for such a pile, and that one's lost.
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I'd feel mighty shaky if I was to see him anyway.
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Well, so do I, but I'd like to see him anyway and track him out to his number two.
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Number two?
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Yes, that's it.
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I've been thinking about that, but I can't make nothing out of it.
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What do you reckon it is?
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I don't know.
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It's too deep.
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Say, Huck, maybe it's the number of a house.
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Goody.
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No, Tom, that ain't it.
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If it is, it ain't in this one horse town.
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Nay, ain't no numbers here.
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Well, that's so.
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Let me think a minute.
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Here.
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It's the number of a room in a tavern, you know.
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Oh, that's the trick.
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They ain't only two taverns.
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We can find out quick.
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You stay here, Huck, till I come.
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Tom was off at once.
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He did not care to have Huck's company in public places.
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He was gone half an hour.
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He found that in the best tavern no two had long been occupied by a young lawyer and was still so occupied in the less ostentatious house.
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Number two was a mystery.
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The tavern keeper's young son said it was kept locked all the time and he never saw anybody going into it or come out of it except at night.
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He did not know any particular reason for this state of things.
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Had had some little curiosity, but it was rather feeble.
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Had made the most of the mystery by entertaining himself with the idea that that room was haunted.
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Had noticed that there was a light in there the night before.
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That's what I found out, Huck.
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I reckon that's the very Number Two we're after.
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I reckon it is, Tom.
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Now, what you going to do?
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Let me think.
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Tom thought a long time.
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Then he said, I'll tell you.
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The back door of that Number Two is the door that comes out into that little close alley behind the tavern and the old rattle trap of a brick store.
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Now, you get hold of all the door keys you can find, and I'll nip all of Aunties and the first Dark Knight will go there and try them.
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And mind you, keep a lookout for Joe, because he said he was going to drop into town and spy around once more for a chance to get his revenge.
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If you see him, you just follow him.
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And if you don't go to that Number Two, that ain't the place, Morty.
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I don't want to follow him by myself.
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Why, it'll be night.
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Sure, he mightn't ever see you.
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And if he did, maybe he'd never think anything.
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Well, if it's pretty dark, I reckon I'll track him.
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I don't know.
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I don't know.
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I'll try.
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You bet I'll follow him.
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If it's Dark Hawk, why, he might have found out he couldn't get his revenge and be going right after that money.
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It's.
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So thom.
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It's so.
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I'll follow him, I will.
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By jingos, now you're talking.
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Don't you ever weaken, Hawk.
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And I won't.
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