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第29章

We stayed in the wigwam and let the raft take care of itself.When the lightning glared out we could see a big straight river ahead, and high, rocky bluffs on both sides.By and by says I, "Hel-LO, Jim, looky yonder!"It was a steamboat that had killed herself on a rock.We was drifting straight down for her.The lightning showed her very distinct.She was leaning over, with part of her upper deck above water, and you could see every little chimbly-guy clean and clear, and a chair by the big bell, with an old slouch hat hanging on the back of it, when the flashes come.

Well, it being away in the night and stormy, and all so mysterious-like, I felt just the way any other boy would a felt when I see that wreck laying there so mournful and lonesome in the middle of the river.I wanted to get aboard of her and slink around a little, and see what there was there.

So I says:

"Le's land on her, Jim."

But Jim was dead against it at first.He says:

"I doan' want to go fool'n 'long er no wrack.We's doin' blame' well, en we better let blame' well alone, as de good book says.Like as not dey's a watchman on dat wrack.""Watchman your grandmother," I says; "there ain't nothing to watch but the texas and the pilothouse; and do you reckon anybody's going to resk his life for a texas and a pilot-house such a night as this, when it's likely to break up and wash off down the river any minute?" Jim couldn't say nothing to that, so he didn't try."And besides," I says, "we might borrow something worth having out of the captain's stateroom.Seegars, I bet you -- and cost five cents apiece, solid cash.Steamboat captains is always rich, and get sixty dollars a month, and THEY don't care a cent what a thing costs, you know, long as they want it.Stick a candle in your pocket; I can't rest, Jim, till we give her a rummaging.Do you reckon Tom Sawyer would ever go by this thing? Not for pie, he wouldn't.He'd call it an adventure -- that's what he'd call it; and he'd land on that wreck if it was his last act.And wouldn't he throw style into it? -- wouldn't he spread himself, nor nothing? Why, you'd think it was Christopher C'lumbus discovering Kingdom-Come.I wish Tom Sawyer WAS here."Jim he grumbled a little, but give in.He said we mustn't talk any more than we could help, and then talk mighty low.The lightning showed us the wreck again just in time, and we fetched the stabboard derrick, and made fast there.

The deck was high out here.We went sneaking down the slope of it to labboard, in the dark, towards the texas, feeling our way slow with our feet, and spreading our hands out to fend off the guys, for it was so dark we couldn't see no sign of them.Pretty soon we struck the forward end of the skylight, and clumb on to it; and the next step fetched us in front of the captain's door, which was open, and by Jimminy, away down through the texas-hall we see a light! and all in the same second we seem to hear low voices in yonder!

Jim whispered and said he was feeling powerful sick, and told me to come along.I says, all right, and was going to start for the raft; but just then I heard a voice wail out and say:

"Oh, please don't, boys; I swear I won't ever tell!"Another voice said, pretty loud:

"It's a lie, Jim Turner.You've acted this way before.You always want more'n your share of the truck, and you've always got it, too, because you've swore 't if you didn't you'd tell.But this time you've said it jest one time too many.You're the meanest, treacherousest hound in this country."By this time Jim was gone for the raft.I was just a-biling with curiosity;and I says to myself, Tom Sawyer wouldn't back out now, and so I won't either; I'm a-going to see what's going on here.So I dropped on my hands and knees in the little passage, and crept aft in the dark till there warn't but one stateroom betwixt me and the cross-hall of the texas.Then in there I see a man stretched on the floor and tied hand and foot, and two men standing over him, and one of them had a dim lantern in his hand, and the other one had a pistol.This one kept pointing the pistol at the man's head on the floor, and saying:

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