The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Chapter 36 (2)
Chapter 28 (2)
"Well, they've got the money. I feel so stupid when I think how it got into their hands." "No. You're mistaken. They don't have the money."

"Really? Who has the money?"

"I wish I knew, but I don't. I got the money out, and I stole it to give it to you. I know where it's hidden, but I'm afraid I'm not there anymore. I'm too I'm sorry, Miss Mary Jane, but it hurt me more than anything, but I did my best, and I meant it. I almost got seen, and I had to hide the money in a place where I could find it. place, get out of here—it's not a good place."

"Oh, don't blame yourself--it's too bad, I won't let you blame yourself--you can't do anything else, it's not your fault. Where did you hide it?"

I don't want to upset her anymore.If I said it, she would think of the dead man in the coffin with a bag of money on his stomach.I hesitated and said nothing, then I said:
"Mary? Miss Jane, I don't want to say it myself. If you will allow me, I will write it on a slip of paper, and you can read it as you please on your way to Mr. Lothrop's. Do you think that will do?"

"Ah, okay."

So I wrote something like this: "I put the money in the coffin. It was still in it when you cried there that night. I hid behind the door and I was so sorry for you, Mary? Miss Jane .”

Thinking of her crying there alone at night, but those two devils stayed at her house, embarrassing her and trying to steal her money, my eyes watered.When I folded the note and handed it to her, I saw that her eyes were also filled with tears.She held my hand tightly and said:

"Goodbye. I will do exactly as you tell me. If I never see you again, I will never forget you. I will think of you often, and pray for you!" And she went away up.

Pray and bless me!I figured if she knew what I was she would do something for me that was more befitting of her.But she will still bless me - she is such a kind person.If she had the kindness to pray for Judas, I reckon she's a daring girl.Believe it or not, but in my opinion, she has more guts than any girl I've ever seen;It sounded like a compliment to her, but it wasn't a compliment at all.Pretty--and good-natured--she's better than any other girl.I haven't seen her since she walked out that door, never seen her again, but I've thought of her a million times and always thought of her praying for me.If I thought praying would do her any good, I'd rather lose my head and pray for her.

Then again, I miss Mary?Jane must have run away by the back door, for no one saw her go.When I saw Susan and Rabbit Mouth, I said to them:

"What's the name of the person on the other side of the river? The one you sometimes visit together?"

They said:
"There's quite a few, but it's the Proctors we usually see."

"That's the name, by the way," said I. "I've almost forgotten it. Miss Mary Jane is in a hurry, and I want to tell you that she's there to see somebody—someone's sick in that house."

"Who's sick?"

"I don't know, or I just forgot the name, but I think it might be..."

"For God's sake, isn't it Hannah?"

"I'm sorry to say it," I said, "that man's name was Hannah."

"My God, she was all right last week! Was she very sick?"

"Not to mention how bad it is. Mary? Miss Jane said they had been with her all night, and they said she might not live a few hours."

"It's so frightening! What's wrong with her?"

I couldn't think of a fatal disease, so I said:

"Mumps."

"Bullshit mumps! Still need people to accompany her all night when she has mumps?"

"No need, is it? But with this kind of mumps you have to be around. It's another kind of mumps, a new disease, Mary? That's what Miss Jane said."

"Why is it a new disease?"

"Because it occurs with other illnesses."

"What other illness?"

"Well... measles, whooping cough, erysipelas, tuberculosis, jaundice, encephalitis, and others I can't name."

"My dear! They still call it mumps?" "Mary? That's what Miss Jane says."

"How can they call it mumps?"

"You don't need to ask, because it's just mumps, it started with mumps."

"Nonsense. If a man stumbles and hurts his toe, and then gets poisoned and falls into a well, and breaks his neck and cracks his head, and they ask him how he died, some fool says: "What's the point? He died from a broken toe.' Is there any truth in that? Of course it isn't. It's nonsense. Is the disease contagious?"

"Is it contagious? It doesn't matter. Can a rake catch someone in the dark? You're going to be caught on one tooth or that, aren't you? If you want to get away, you have to be dragged." Goes with the whole rake, doesn't it? Let's just say, this mumps is literally a rake. And it's not a floppy rake that gets caught and you can't get it off."

"I see it's bad enough," said Rabbitmouth, "I'm going to find Uncle Harvey and tell him..."

"Yes," I said, "if I were you I'd tell him of course. Right away."

"Hey, why are you in such a hurry?"

"You think, don't your uncles and uncles want to go back to England as soon as possible? You think he will go away like a mean person, don't worry about letting you go so far by yourself? You know they will wait for you Yes. That's a good thing. Your Uncle Harvey's a clergyman, isn't he? Yes, can a clergyman coax a ship? Can he coax a ship to let Miss Mary? Jane aboard? Of course he It can't be done. So what can he do? Don't ask, he'll say, "'It's a pity, I'll have to let someone else take care of my church business, because my niece and a friend have mumps. I have stayed with someone who is here, I have to stay here with her for a while, wait for three months, to see if she is infected with that disease. ' But never mind, if you think it best to tell your Uncle Harvey...'

"What a pity to wait here for three foolish months, just to see Mary? Is that what Jane has, and we should have had a better life if we had been in England. It's a foolish thing you can say."

"Anyway, probably you'd better talk to a neighbor about it."

"Listen to what you say. You're the dumbest of all. You're a born fool. They'll spread the word. Nobody can tell now."

"Well, what you say sounds reasonable. Yes, I think you're right."

"Anyway, I think I'll tell Uncle Harvey about it, that she's going out on something, and she's going to stay out for a while, so he won't worry about her."

"Yes, Mary? Miss Jane wanted you to tell him. She said: 'Tell them to say hello to Uncle Harvey and Uncle William for me, and kiss 'em for me, and say I'll go across the river to see...  Look... what sir? What's the name of that rich man your Uncle Peter thinks of?—I mean the..."

"What's the matter with you, you must mean the Apshorpes, don't you?"

"Of course it is. It's such a hard name to remember, and you probably won't remember it, no matter how hard you try. Well, she said you just said she went there to find the Apshorpes for the auction, because she thought, her uncle If Peter was alive, he would have given priority to selling this house to their family. She said that she would persuade them to come and buy the house, and wait for their consent. She said that if she was not too tired, she would come home. I'm sure I'll be back tomorrow morning. Don't mention Proctor's name, just say Apshorpe, she said--which would have been the truth, because she was really going to try to get them to buy a house. .Because she told me herself, so I know about it."

"Well," they said, and went out to their uncles and uncles, to say good morning to them, to kiss them, and to tell them news of their sister.

By this time, things were settled.The two girls will not reveal anything because they want to go to England.Kings and dukes would rather Mary too?Jane went to do something else before she went to Dr. Robinson.I was very happy in my heart, and thought it was a wonderful thing to do.I bet it was Tom?Sawyer doesn't necessarily do much better.Of course, he'd probably be able to pull off some pretty tricks if he did it, but I'm no good at that, because I wasn't taught that way when I was little.

Later, when it was getting dark that day, they were auctioning in the square, and crowds of people came over, and the old man also came to the scene in person, standing beside the auctioneer, looking very serious, quoting from the "Bible" from time to time. Say a word or two, or say a few nice words, and the duke babbles all over the place, trying to get sympathy for himself.

The procrastination was finally done, and everything was sold.Only a small piece of cemetery remained unsold.They're going to sell that land too--I never saw such a greedy fellow as the king, he wants to eat everything.While they were selling the cemetery, a ship docked. Two minutes later, a group of people came running up here, shouting, laughing, and shouting, "Here comes your rival! Old Peter? Wilkes has two heirs. Spenders Get ready to choose who to give it to!"

(End of this chapter)