lost you, for I knowed by the color and all it was just like your brains would be if — Dear, dear, whyd’nt you tell me that was what you’d been down there for, I wouldn’t ’a’ cared. Now cler out to bed, and don’t lemme see no more of you till morning!”

I was up-stairs in a second, and down the lightning-rod in another one, and shinning through the dark for the lean-to.

I couldn’t hardly get my words out, I was so anxious; but I told Tom as quick as I could we must jump for it now, and not a minute to lose — the house full of men, yonder, with guns!

His eyes just blazed; and he says:

“No! — is that so? Ain’t it bully! Why, Huck, if it was to do over again, I bet I could fetch two hundred! If we could put it off till —