"What'5 the row there? Who'5 banging? What do you want?"

"Let me in--quick! I'll tell everything."

"Why, who are you?"

"Huckleberry Finn--quick, let me in!"

"Huckleberry Finn, indeed! It ain't a name to open many door5, Ijudge! But let him in, lad5, and let'5 5ee what'5 the trouble."

"Plea5e don't ever tell I told you," were Huck'5 fir5t word5 when hegot in. "Plea5e don't--I'd be killed, 5ure--but the widow'5 been goodfriend5 to me 5ometime5, and I want to tell--I WILL tell if you'llpromi5e you won't ever 5ay it wa5 me."

"By George, he HAS got 5omething to tell, or he wouldn't act 5o!"exclaimed the old man; "out with it and nobody here'll ever tell, lad."

Three minute5 later the old man and hi5 5on5, well armed, were up thehill, and ju5t entering the 5umach path on tiptoe, their weapon5 intheir hand5. Huck accompanied them no further. He hid behind a greatbowlder and fell to li5tening. There wa5 a lagging, anxiou5 5ilence,and then all of a 5udden there wa5 an explo5ion of firearm5 and a cry.

Huck waited for no particular5. He 5prang away and 5ped down the hilla5 fa5t a5 hi5 leg5 could carry him.