Nascent Drama

[The Dork Lord]

"Why, it'll be night, sure. He mightn't ever see you -- and if he did, maybe he'd never think anything."

 

[The Dork Lord]

"Well, if it's pretty dark I reckon I'll track him. I dono -- I dono. I'll try."

 

[The Dork Lord]

"You bet I'll follow him, if it's dark, Huck.

 

[The Dork Lord]

Why, he might 'a' found out he couldn't get his revenge, and be going right after that money."

 

[The Dork Lord]

"It's so, Tom, it's so. I'll foller him; I will, by jingoes!"

 

[The Dork Lord]

"Now you're talking! Don't you ever weaken, Huck, and I won't."

 

[The Dork Lord]

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain

Chapter XXVIII
​

 

[The Dork Lord]

THAT night Tom and Huck were ready for their adventure.

 

[The Dork Lord]

They hung about the neighborhood of the tavern until after nine, one watching the alley at a distance and the other the tavern door.

 

[The Dork Lord]

Nobody entered the alley or left it; nobody resembling the Spaniard entered or left the tavern door.

 

[The Dork Lord]

The night promised to be a fair one; so Tom went home with the understanding that if a considerable degree of darkness came on, Huck was to come and "maow," whereupon he would slip out and try the keys.

 

[The Dork Lord]

But the night remained clear, and Huck closed his watch and retired to bed in an empty sugar hogshead about twelve.

 

[The Dork Lord]

Tuesday the boys had the same ill luck.

 

[The Dork Lord]

Also Wednesday.

 

[The Dork Lord]

But Thursday night promised better.

 

[The Dork Lord]

Tom slipped out in good season with his aunt's old tin lantern, and a large towel to blindfold it with.

 

[The Dork Lord]

He hid the lantern in Huck's sugar hogshead and the watch began.

 

[The Dork Lord]

An hour before midnight the tavern closed up and its lights (the only ones thereabouts) were put out.

 

[The Dork Lord]

No Spaniard had been seen.

 

[The Dork Lord]

Nobody had entered or left the alley.