After Muff Potter’s trial, everybod

After Muff Potter’s trial, everybody in St Petersburgtalked about Tom. Judge Thatcher spoke to him.‘You are a fine young man, Tom,’ he said.And Becky smiled and said, ‘Let’s be friends again,Tom. It’s my birthday on Saturday. I’m going to havea picnic at McDougal’s Caves. All my friends are going to come.Will you come to the picnic?’‘Oh, yes,’ said Tom. He was very happy.The next day, Tom met Huck.‘We didn’t find any buried treasure on Jackson’s Island,’ Tomsaid. ‘I want to find some buried treasure. Will you come with me?’‘Where shall we look for it?’ asked Huck.‘Let’s look in the Haunted House,’ said Tom.They took two shovels, and they went to an old house near thetown. All the boys in St Petersburg called it the Haunted House.The house was empty. The windows were broken and therewere holes in the roof. The garden was untidy and the fence wasbroken.At first, the boys were afraid. They did not want to go into thehouse. But it was a bright sunny day.‘There are no ghosts in the daytime,’ said Tom.Tom and Huck went quietly through the broken door. Theywalked round the empty rooms.‘Let’s go upstairs,’ said Huck.They put their shovels on the floor. Then they went up thebroken stairs carefully. All the rooms upstairs were empty. Theboys went back to the stairs. Suddenly, Tom heard a noise.‘Listen!’ he said. ‘There are ghosts downstairs!’‘Oh no!’ said Huck. ‘Let’s run away!’‘We can’t,’ said Tom. ‘The ghosts will see us! Come in here!’The boys went into one of the upstairs rooms. There were manyholes in the floor. Tom and Huck lay down on the floor. Theylooked through the holes. They could see the room below them.Two men came into the downstairs room.One was a stranger. The other man was Injun Joe!The two men were talking.‘I won’t do it, Joe!’ said the Stranger. ‘The job is too dangerous.’‘It isn’t dangerous!’ said Injun Joe. ‘We’ll do the job soon. Then we’ll go to Texas.’‘I want some of the money now,’ said the Stranger.‘How much money is there?’‘Six hundred and fifty dollars,’ replied Joe.Six hundred and fifty dollars! Huck and Tomlooked at each other. What a lot of money!Injun Joe moved a stone in the floor and pulled out a bag.He took some dollars from the bag and he gave them to theStranger.‘I’ll bury the bag again,’ Injun Joe said. ‘I’ll bury it in anotherplace. Then nobody will find it.’He started to dig in the floor with his knife. Suddenly, there wasa noise. Injun Joe stopped digging. His knife had hit something.Injun Joe saw the boy’s shovels on the floor. ‘Give me one ofthose shovels!’ he said.The Stranger gave Injun Joe one of the shovels. Injun Joe dugin the floor again. He used the shovel. Then he lifted an old boxout of the hole. He opened the box and put his hand inside it. Hetook some gold coins from the box!There was buried treasure in the Haunted House! Tom andHuck were very excited!‘There are thousands of dollars in this box,’ said the Stranger.‘Somebody stole this money from a bank. They buried the moneyhere. Now we don’t have to do that job.’‘Oh yes, we do,’ said Injun Joe. ‘I don’t want money. I wantrevenge. And I want your help. Go home. I’ll come and find yousoon.’‘What are we going to do with this money?’ asked the Stranger.He pointed to the gold coins.‘I’ll take the money to the other place,’ replied Injun Joe. ‘Itisn’t safe here. Those shovels are not ours. Somebody has beenhere. Let’s go.’The two men left the house.‘He’s taken the treasure,’ said Huck sadly. ‘Where is he going tobury it now?’‘I don’t know,’ said Tom. ‘But I don’t want to follow them. I’mfrightened.’Tom was very worried. ‘Huck,’ he said. ‘Revenge! Injun Joewants revenge. He’s going to get revenge on me! I spoke at thetrial. Now he’s going to punish me!’