But Injun Joe didn’t come out. At midnight it began to rain, and Huck waited all night in the wet street. In the morning he could not move and he could not speak. He felt cold, then hot, then cold, then hot again. Mrs. Douglas, a woman from the church, found him in the street. She took him to her home and put him to bed. And there he stayed for two weeks. He was very ill, and so he did not hear about Tom and Becky. But on Sunday morning all St Petersburg knew about Tom and Becky – because they were not on the boat when it came back to the village. Where were they? Were they lost in the cave? And were they alive, or dead?