Chapter 26
The unlocked door and the sleeping Injun Joe
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1 St. Petersburg sleeps on a clear summer night beside the wide Mississippi.
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2 An hour before midnight, the tavern's lamps go out and its alley sinks into darkness
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3 A lantern flash breaks the darkness of the alley as Tom tears out shouting "Run!
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4 The locked door gives way, and the unwrapped lantern floods the forbidden Room No. 2 with light.
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5 Tom's bare foot freezes just above Injun Joe's sleeping hand in the harsh lantern light
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6 Injun Joe lies dead drunk on the floor of Room No. 2, a bottle and tin cup beside him
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7 In the old slaughter-house shed, Huck grips Tom's hand and agrees to watch every night
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8 Under the slaughter-house shed, Huck vows to haunt the tavern every night for a year
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