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They shoved off, presently, Tom in command, Huck at the after oar and Joe at the forward.
Presently Huck said: "What does pirates have to do?"Tom said: "Oh, they have just a bully time--take ships and burn them, and get the money and bury it in awful places in their island where there's ghosts and things to watch it, and kill everybody in the ships--make 'em walk a plank."
Now, far away in the woods a bird called; another answered; presently the hammering of a woodpecker was heard.
Presently a great jet of white smoke burst from the ferryboat's side, and as it expanded and rose in a lazy cloud, that same dull throb of sound was borne to the listeners again.
Presently a revealing thought flashed through Tom's mind, and he exclaimed:"Boys, I know who's drownded--it's us!"
As the night deepened, Huck began to nod, and presently to snore.
Presently the cracked bell tapped and a voice gave the order to "cast off."
He went on listening, and gathered by odds and ends that it was conjectured at first that the boys had got drowned while taking a swim; then the small raft had been missed; next, certain boys said the missing lads had promised that the village should "hear something" soon; the wise-heads had "put this and that together" and decided that the lads had gone off on that raft and would turn up at the next town below, presently; but toward noon the raft had been found, lodged against the Missouri shore some five or six miles below the village--and then hope perished; they must be drowned, else hunger would have driven them home by nightfall if not sooner.
Presently, without a parting word, Joe began to wade off toward the Illinois shore.
They presently stopped and turned around.
But presently it began to flag a trifle, and grow disjointed.
Presently there came a quivering glow that vaguely revealed the foliage for a moment and then vanished.
The tempest rose higher and higher, and presently the sail tore loose from its fastenings and went winging away on the blast.
They were eloquent in their distress; but they presently discovered that the fire had eaten so far up under the great log it had been built against (where it curved upward and separated itself from the ground), that a handbreadth or so of it had escaped wetting; so they patiently wrought until, with shreds and bark gathered from the under sides of sheltered logs, they coaxed the fire to burn again.
Presently she stopped, and said to herself:"It was right here.
Presently she arrived.
Presently she gave over skylarking, and moved irresolutely about, sighing once or twice and glancing furtively and wistfully toward Tom.
He presently encountered her and delivered a stinging remark as he passed.
Presently he said to himself:"What a curious kind of a fool a girl is!
Presently the spelling-book discovery was made, and Tom's mind was entirely full of his own matters for a while after that.
Tom presently wondered to find that his coveted vacation was beginning to hang a little heavily on his hands.
Each wandered away, from time to time, but the same dismal fascination always brought them back presently.
Presently he stumbled upon Huck Finn the Red-Handed.
They presently entered, softly, with quickened pulses, talking in whispers, ears alert to catch the slightest sound, and muscles tense and ready for instant retreat.
Both men presently fell to yawning, and Injun Joe said:"I'm dead for sleep!
Presently the watcher began to nod; his head drooped lower and lower, both men began to snore now.
Presently he said: "Who could have brought those tools here?
But the incidents of his adventure grew sensibly sharper and clearer under the attrition of thinking them over, and so he presently found himself leaning to the impression that the thing might not have been a dream, after all.
The old steam ferry-boat was chartered for the occasion; presently the gay throng filed up the main street laden with provision-baskets.
Presently, as they tripped along, Tom said to Becky: "Say--I'll tell you what we'll do.
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