Injun Joe's death and the treasure found

1 Chapter 31 opens on a quiet afternoon above the Missouri shore.

2 The cave door opens on Injun Joe, lying dead with his face pressed to the crack

3 In the cave vestibule, barefoot Tom stands by the broken stalagmite and hollowed stone

4 Behind a shed, Tom crouches by Huck and whispers that the treasure is in the cave

5 Tom whispers that the treasure is in the cave, and hope flares in Huck's fever-pale face.

6 Deep in McDougal's cave, a cross smeared in candle-smoke shows on the great rock

7 In McDougal's cave, Tom's Barlow knife digs four inches under the cross and hits wood

8 Tom's candle opens a hidden cavern at the end of the winding rift.

9 Deep in McDougal's cave, Huck plunges his hand into the gold as Tom holds up the candle

10 At the Widow Douglas's, a clay-smeared Tom cuffs tattling Sid and kicks him to the door

11 At the Widow Douglas's supper, Tom half-rises and stuns the room: Huck don't need it

12 Tom pours a stream of gold onto the Widow Douglas's supper-table: half Huck's, half his