Then Huck told his entire adventure in confidence to Tom, who had only heard of the Welshman's part of it before.

     "Well," said Huck, presently, coming back to the main question, "whoever nipped the whiskey in No. 2, nipped the money, too, I reckon--anyways it's a goner for us, Tom."

     "Huck, that money wasn't ever in No. 2!"

     "What!" Huck searched his comrade's face keenly. "Tom, have you got on the track of that money again?"

     "Huck, it's in the cave!"

     Huck's eyes blazed.

     "Say it again, Tom."

     "The money's in the cave!"

     "Tom--honest injun, now--is it fun, or earnest?"

     "Earnest, Huck--just as earnest as ever I was in my life. Will you go in there with me and help get it out?"

     "I bet I will! I will if it's where we can blaze our way to it and not get lost."