Chapter 33

⁠​​​‌​​​​​‌‌‌​‌‌​‌​​‌‌‌‌​​‌‌​​​​‌​​​​‌‌‌​​​‌‌‌‌​‌‌​‌​​​​‌​​​‌​​​​⁠Within a few minutes the news had spread, and a dozen skiff-loads of men were on their way to McDougal’s cave, and the ferryboat, well filled with passengers, soon followed. Tom Sawyer was in the skiff that bore Judge Thatcher.

When the cave door was unlocked, a sorrowful sight presented itself in the dim twilight of the place. Injun Joe lay stretched upon the ground, dead, with his face close to t