Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn Page #5

Hey, Becky, mind if I ask

you a personal question?

- No, Tom Sawyer, I don't mind.

- Have you ever...

ever been engaged?

- No.

Of course not.

Never.

Um, Tom?

What's that mean, anyway?

- Oh, you gotta try it out.

- Oh, Oh,

I... I don't know, Tom.

How does that work?

HOW?

Uh, well, it's as

easy as nothing.

All you gotta do is

say to a guy like me

that you'd never,

ever take another guy,

and then you kiss each other

and then that's it.

Everyone can do it.

- Kissing?

- Why on earth would...

- Uh, yeah.

Uh, kissing is for...

Oh, you know, 'cause they

always do that.

But first, you gotta say

that you love each other.

- Oh.

I don't... I don't think

I want to be engaged.

- You... you don't

have to say it too loud.

You could even

whisper it real soft.

I love you.

Now, you whisper it

to me just like I did.

- Now, you tum your face away,

and don't you say a word

of this to anybody.

- Of course not, promise.

- I love you.

- And from now on, you love

me and only me, okay?

And we can walk

to school together,

and we can walk home

from school together,

when no one's looking,

of course.

- Oh, how romantic.

- Sure is. What do you

think it was like

back when me and

Amy Lawrence was engaged?

Uh, here, Becky.

How'd you like to have it?

Hey, Hucky.

So, is this where

you've been hanging out?

- You know, Tom...

Injun Joe was a murderer,

but I imagine how

desperate he must have been

once he found out

the jig was up.

Man, he was probably

in a bad state.

- Yeah.

Who knows, someday...

we might turn out

to be murderers.

Yeah.

So where you been hanging

out the last couple of days?

I've been looking for you

high and low.

- Just been squatting

at the haunted house.

It's the only dry place I know.

Besides, ever since

Injun Joe's been gone,

pretty safe, too.

Hey, you see, Tom?

It ain't all that bad in here.

Come home, hang up my stuff

in this wall closet.

And then, retire upstairs

to the bedroom at night.

Come on, I'll show you.

- Wow.

This place is a real home.

Shh.

If you need to lift 'em,

we'll get a mule or something.

That's the deaf mute Spaniard.

- I told you no.

I don't like it and

I ain't gonna do it.

- Shut up, Windy.

The voice...

exactly that voice

took their breaths away

and sent chills down the spines

of Tom and Huck instantly.

Simultaneously.

And, as a matter of fact,

there was no doubt in

a million that this voice

belonged to only one.

- You're right.

Injun Joe.

- But, I'm telling you,

this time, leave it be!

What are we gonna do

with all that cash leftover?

- Don't know.

We leave it here.

Don't make sense taking 'em out

before we're heading south.

650 is a lot of weight.

- Yeah, but you listen to me.

It could take a while

before the time is right.

- Get down. Get down.

This spot here isn't right.

We need to bury it right,

and I mean deep.

I'm hitting a rotten

piece of wood here.

Nah, it's a crate, I think.

Come here and give me a hand

so we can see just

what's down here.

Wait, Joe.

Ohh!

- Let me do it.

Come on, Joe.

Here.

There's money in it.

Look at it! Money!

- There's gotta be $1,000 dollars in there.

- Now, you don't have

to do that last job.

- That goes to show you don't

know anything about me,

and at least not enough.

I don't like it when someone's got

the upper hand on me.

I got a job to do before

I can leave this place.

What are we gonna

do about this here?

Bury it back like

it was before?

Let's get outta here.

Wait.

Time to move.

Get outta here before

they pluck our eyes out.

- Hucky?

Hucky?

Hucky?

Huck!

- Howdy, Huck.

- Huh?

- Hucky.

Hm?

Howdy, Tom.

- You know, Huck,

that treasure rightfully

belongs to us.

- Yeah, now you're

really dreaming.

- Could be, but, uh...

we was there first,

and that's why it

belongs to us.

- You should tell that

to Injun Joe.

- You know, Huck,

I don't know why

I didn't come up

with it before,

but uh...

down in the caves.

I'd have to say that

that's where they took the loot.

- Well, I ain't

going down there.

- Well, if you don't

wanna go, that's fine,

but you at least

gotta cover me.

- Yeah.

Yeah, I can do that.

All right.

- Now, you're being sensible.

Now, you don't lose strength

and I won't lose

strength neither.

- Meow! Meow!

- Dam it!

Come on, Huck, let's get

outta here, come on!

Next day was the annual

archeological school outing.

This excursion would bring

the kids from Saint Petersburg

up to the McDouglas caves.

- So, students, can you guess

what the name of the cave is?

Look up, and you will see

these amazing big eyes.

Yes, the name of the cave

is the Big Eyes.

Please.

From this point on,

I will lead you,

and... Tom,

and you, Becky,

bring up the rear.

I'm counting on you two.

And remember what

I told you all.

Stay together.

"Stay together."

Hm!

- Becky?

- Yeah?

- Oh, I gotta show you something.

Come over here.

- All right.

Follow me, my lady, into

the bowels of these caverns.

- Oh, isn't this

wonderful, Tom?

- Yeah, Becky,

it sure is marvelous.

Come on, Becky, over here.

Come on, come on over here!

Tom!.

It's okay, Becky.

I'm here.

Nothing can happen.

- Tom.

Oh, my God.

Group.

Our class,

they'll be looking for us.

- Yeah, Becky, you're right.

It's time to go back.

- Do you think you can

find the way back out?

I don't have

the slightest clue.

- That is the least

of our worries.

We should find

a different way out

so that we don't have to

go through that again.

Come on over here.

- All right.

You know Becky, I think it'd be

better if we just light this torch.

- All right.

- Hold this.

On Sunday morning,

alarming news spread through

the first of the congregation

and then the town,

and eventually the country,

demanding the attention

of both young and old.

Tom Sawyer and

Becky Thatcher did not return

with the rest of the group

from McDouglas caves

and have not been

heard of since.

- But they must

still be in the cave!

- Yes, they're still in there!

They have to look for them!

- Yes, my darling.

And that's exactly

what they did.

- Oh, my God.

Without light, we'll

never get out of here.

Do you think that they're

looking for us, Tom?

- Yeah, Becky.

I know that someone's

looking for us.

What are you thinking, Becky?

- What day it is and if

it's day or nighttime.

Becky?!

Let's split up in three groups.

Tom!

You guys check out Big Eyes.

Hello?!

We're staying down

in the lower quarter.

- Hey, stay together.

- Be careful of them cliffs!

- Becky! Tom!

- Hello?

- Where are you?

And...

we're never

gonna get out of here.

- Sure we are. Look, I'm gonna

feel my way over there.

And you're gonna stay right

here until I get back, okay?

- No, please, please,

don't leave me alone in here.

- Becky, I have to.

I'll be right back.

You stay right here.

- Don't move.

- Please!

- Hello?

- Tom, where are you?

- You over here?

- Come on out!

Becky, where are you?

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