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Show 110 TilE ADrE~VTURES OF IIUCKLEBEllRJ:~ FIN .• Y. light wa.'"' in th water. 'Vh n we got pr tty clo;,e to the cro. - hall door, there \\'a.:; th kiff, sure no ugh ! I could j u t barely . :'<' l1 er. I felt ever :o thankful. In another cond I would a bt>Pn aboard of her; bnt ju t th n th0 door op n d. One of i IH' lll ('ll Rtuck hi.' head out, only about a couple of foot fr01n rnc, a1Hl I thought I wa. g-1n ; but h') j c'rkcd it in again, and '· I [L':tve th:1L bb,rnc lantern out o' ight, Biil! " l [c finng a bag of ~omething into th~ bo::tt, ancl then got in hitn elf, and s t <lown. It was Packanl. Then Bill he co1ne out and got in. Packard ays, in a low voic : '' \ll ready-shove off! " r couldn '{ hardly hang on to the shutters, I W~t so \V!':lk. Hut Bill Days: '' I [old n-\l yon go through hinl ? ' '".No. Didn't your'' '' X o. ~o h "'s got hi ' share o' the ca lt, yet.'' "\Y ll, then, conle along-no u~e t take truck and lea\· 1noney:· "Sny-won't he su"picion what we're up to?" "~fay be he won't. But vve got to have it anyway. Cmn' <llong."' So they got out an<l w nt in. Th door ·larnrnccl to, b cau it wa · on the car necl ·id ; ancl in a half cond I wa in th boat, and Jirn com a tun1- hling after 1n • I out \vith rny knif and cut the rope, and a way \Ve went ! 'r e didn't touch an oar, and we didn' speak nor whisper, n.or hardly even .breathe. Vtr ~ went gliding swift along, dead : 1lent, past the tlp of the paddle-box, and past the stern; then 111 a second or two more ·we was a hundred yards below the wr rk, and the darkncs soaked her up, every last sjgn of h r, and we wa afe, an l knowed it. l'J'SCA.PIYG r'RO.lf TilE TVRECJ{. Ill 'Vhen \Ve wa thr e or four huntlrcd yard· do\vn ·trearn, w e the lantern ·how lik a little park at th' t xas door, for a ~econd, and ''" knowed by that the rascals had 1ni ed their b at, and was beginning to under tancl that th y wa in j u:t a· n1uch trouble, now, a Jim Turner \Va . Then Jim Ulann d the oars, and w took nt aftrr our raft. Now was th first titne that I b gun to worry about the Inen- 1 reckon I hadn't hacl tirn to befor . I begun to think how <lreaclful it was, ven for Jll1ll'<l r r~, to b in .-uch a fix. I , ays to mys )lf, th r ain't no telling but I n1ight ron1 to he a 11nn·cler r 111y ·elf, yet., and then how ''" uld Jlik' it? ~o ~ays I to .Titn : "Th fir~t. light we .'C0, we'll larul a hundred vanls belo\,it or above it, in a place where iL's n aood hid in a-pla · for yon and th skiff, and then rn go and fix np ~Oin ki n<l f a yarn, antl g t o1ncbo<ly to go for that ganrr and get thern out of their ·crap , so they can b hung wh )n their t i tn COJil : . '' Bnt that id a wa. a failnr); for pr 'tty :oon it begun to ~tonu again, ancl thi · tirn wor.·e than rver. The rain poured <lown, ancl n ever a light sho\ved; verybocly in lw<l, I r eckon. \\T e boo1ued along <lown the river, watehing for Jjght s ancl waiehing for onr raft. After a, long tin1e the rain let up, hut the rl 1Hls tai<l, an<l th liahtning kept \vhin1p ring, an<l hy-and-by a ft.a~h showe<l us a black thing ah 'ad, floating, and we 1nacl for it. It was th raft, an<l n1ighty glacl wa, we to g { aboard of it again. vVe . een a light, now, away down to th) right., on ~hore. o I said I ·would go for it. The kiff wa half full f plunder which tha.t gang had stol ' th r on the wr ck. ~ vr e hu tled it on to the rafc in a pile, and I told J i1n to float along <lown, and ·how a light when h judged he had gone ab ut two 1nil , and. keep it burning till I come; then I n1ann d n1y ars and ·hoved for the light. A I got down townrJ.' it, three or |