“Huck, have you ever told anybody about — that?”
“’Bout what?”
“You know what.”
“Oh — ’course I haven’t.”
“Never a word?”
“Never a solitary word, so help me.
What makes you ask?”
“Well, I was afeard.”
“Why, Tom Sawyer, we wouldn’t be alive two days if that got found out. You know that.”
Tom felt more comfortable. After a pause:
“Huck, they couldn’t anybody get you to tell, could they?”