“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?”