"What's the row there? Who's 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 doors, I judge! But let him in, lads, and let's see what's the trouble."

     "Please don't ever tell I told you," were Huck's first words when he got in. "Please don't--I'd be killed, sure--but the widow's been good friends to me sometimes, and I want to tell--I will tell if you'll promise you won't ever say it was me."

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