Chapter 24
The Haunted House and Injun Joe's Gold
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1 At still noon, the lone dead tree on the hilltop reaches its limb over a green valley
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2 At noon, under a baking sun, Tom and Huck stop at the weed-smothered doorsteps of the haunted house.
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3 Tom and Huck peer through knotholes as two strangers enter the haunted house below
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4 Two boys lie pressed to a gap in the planks of the haunted house.
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5 In the loft of the haunted house, Tom rises to slip away alone.
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6 Deep in the haunted house, Injun Joe lifts a handful of gold coins from the rotten box
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7 Kneeling over the unearthed gold, Injun Joe tells his comrade the job is revenge
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8 Injun Joe's hand turns over the boys' rusty pick and his thumb presses into the damp red clay on it.
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9 Disguised as the Spaniard, Injun Joe climbs the rotten stairs, hand on his bowie knife
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10 The rotten stairs collapse under Injun Joe, and he struggles up cursing from the timbers
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11 In the dusk woods, Tom realises Injun Joe's revenge may be meant for him and Huck
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12 At dusk, Huck ambles down Cardiff Hill toward the lit windows of the village, relieved
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