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Show 12 \ illag(' was thP river, a whole JniJe broad, illld awful ·till illHl g rand. \re went dowll tl1e hill and found .Jo lLu·pcr, and Bc11 Hoger;-;, and two or three 1non· of the boy.-, J1id in the ohl tany: lrd. • 1o wr 1mbitdH d <I skiff and pulled down the ri,·er two 1ni le ancl a half, to the big. c:ar on tllc hillside, and went n. horP. \\'"e went to a chunp of l>nshc:, and 'J'o~n Jnade e\·eryl)Ody '-'Wt~:n· to keel> tlH' ~ecret . l t 1 I } 'lJ . . ' ' ' cllH lCll :-; 10WC'd t h e1n a 1lo]e in i he I I 'rJglli lll thl' lllick <':t pnrL of the bllshe.-. Then we Jjt tlle <'ancll C's ·tncl C'l''l\ ·l :. 1 · · . I ( { ' < c J n o 11 o nr ] l an c L~ an cl 1< nee,.. \\T e wen L <l )Ont iwo hundred \'·nJ . . l 1 k , .; < < s, <ln< t len the cave opened up. To1n po eel about a1nongt th 1 · e pa.-. nges and pretty soon duckccl ltnc er a wdl wher , '-'OU wo 11 . . 1 I T .; n c n t a nohcecl thaL there was a 10 • \\ e went '11 . . . ' ong <t narrow plac and got into a kind of IOOln, .lll d:nnp and .·wcat , d . '1, om .-ny.- : y clTI c:o]d, and there We tO}>l>ed • "Xow w ''11 .tnr! thi~ b:n1cl of rnhber:-; ancl <.:all iL Torn ~awycr· · <lang. Evc: rybocly that ·wnnt.· to join ha.· got. to t;1ke an oath, nncl \\Tit his l1£lln in hloocl.'' Everybody was willing. ~o T01n got out a :h 'rt of }>ilpf'r that he hacl wrote tltc O£lth on, ancl r acl it. It ~wore <'H'r.v boy to t;tick to th ' ban c.l, and n ·vc·r t <' ll any of the ·c·crct s ; ;1nd if anybody clone anything to any hoy in tlw band, w1liclH'\.('r boy wa order cl t >kill that pen.;on and hi: fmnily Jllnst do it, and he 1ntL tn't cat and be n1ustn 't sl' p till he hacl killed t hl'lll and hack'dn eros inthcirbrea.·ts,,rhichwas the .irrnof tl H· bancl. An<l nobody that didn "L he long to the bancl conld n. (· that nmxk, und if l1e did h Hnt.'t hP . ne<l; and if he dotl<' it (lgain he Jnnst h' killed. Ancl if anybody thaL belonged io tlH· b;uHI t ol(l th' .ec ret~, he nutst haYe l1is tl1ro:1t nt, alHl thf'n ha\'C his carc;t-s bHrnt up ancl t h' a:l J<'.' :C'aU r '<l all aronnd, ancl hi na1n blotted off of the list ·with bloofl an<l n V<'r Jnention 'd again by the· g:lng, bnt have' a cur: pnt on jL a tHl be forgot, for c \·cr. Ev rybocly ,'a.i<l it was a real brantiful o;lth, an(l a:kC'cl T01n if he got it ont of his own l1cad . ] [e :ai<l, . OJn of it, hut tlH' r c. t was out of pirate hooks, and rohber books, aucl c\· ry gang lhat \Yet. high-ton d had it. S01n thought it would b goocl to kill the fronili es of' boy=-' that told tb' .·ccn.!ts. T01n said iL was a gooc1 idea, so lH' too]~ a pencil an l wrote it in. Thrn Ben Hogt>rs s:1y. : " 1 f re ·,· ] f ll<.: k }'j ll n, he ]w i n'L got 110 fa1 ll i l y - \Vlla{ )'Oll going to do 'bont hin1 '! '' "\\r 'll, hain 't he got a fat her'!' s;J)' ~ To1n S;twy r. '~ ·y r s, h c · s got a fat h e r, b u L you c: an 'L n e y ' r 1i 1 H l h i m t h e :-(' day . lie u~ 'Cl t l:ty drnnk with the h ogs in tlH' tm1yard, but hC' hai n· t been se n in the :r parL~ for a ycm· or IlH>r .' ' They talk d i L ov r, and they w:t.:~ aoiug to n de 111 ' ul, bec:au.· th('Y .-aid cv ry boy rnnsl ha\· ' a fatnily or s 1nebod.r |
