Chapter 9
Murder in the Graveyard
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1 St. Petersburg sleeps under a moon hidden by clouds.
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2 Tom has dropped from the woodshed roof, and Huck waits with a dead cat held by its tail
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3 Tom and Huck wade through rank grass into the neglected hilltop graveyard at night.
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4 Tom and Huck crouch by the three elms as three dark figures cross the night graveyard
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5 Three men stop by the fresh grave, a few feet from Tom and Huck lying flat in the grass
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6 Injun Joe finally has the doctor who shamed him five years ago.
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7 By the open grave, Doctor Robinson brings Williams's heavy headboard down on Muff Potter
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8 The moon comes out again over the graveyard.
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9 Under moonlight, Injun Joe folds Muff Potter's limp fingers around the bloody knife
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10 Muff Potter, blood on his shirt, kneels and raises clasped hands to Injun Joe
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