Chapter 25
Number Two turns out to be a tavern room
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1 Before sunrise, St. Petersburg sleeps above the wide, still Mississippi.
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2 At dawn Tom throws off the quilt, sits on the bed's edge and reaches for his clothes
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3 On a lazy morning, Huck sits slumped on an old flatboat with his feet in the Mississippi
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4 On a flatboat gunwale, Tom grabs Huck's sleeve, realising yesterday's treasure was real
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5 Squatting on the flatboat deck, Tom suddenly cracks the riddle: "Number Two" is a room in a tavern.
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6 Room No. 2 of the less ostentatious tavern is shuttered tight in broad morning daylight.
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7 On the flatboat, Huck clenches his fist and vows to follow Injun Joe alone in the dark
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8 On the sunny flatboat deck, Tom thrusts out his hand to seal the pact and Huck meets it
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