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Las aventuras de Tom Sawyer
Capítulo 11, Página 3
Potter
would
have
fallen
if
they
had
not
caught
him
and
eased
him
to
the
ground.
Then
he
said:
“Something
told
me
’t
if
I
didn’t
come
back
and
get—”
He
shuddered;
then
waved
his
nerveless
hand
with
a
vanquished
gesture
and
said,
“Tell
’em,
Joe,
tell
’em—it
ain’t
any
use
any
more.”
Then
Huckleberry
and
Tom
stood
dumb
and
staring,
and
heard
the
stony-hearted
liar
reel
off
his
serene
statement,
they
expecting
every
moment
that
the
clear
sky
would
deliver
God’s
lightnings
upon
his
head,
and
wondering
to
see
how
long
the
stroke
was
delayed.
And
when
he
had
finished
and
still
stood
alive
and
whole,
their
wavering
impulse
to
break
their
oath
and
save
the
poor
betrayed
prisoner’s
life
faded
and
vanished
away,
for
plainly
this
miscreant
had
sold
himself
to
Satan
and
it
would
be
fatal
to
meddle
with
the
property
of
such
a
power
as
that.
“Why
didn’t
you
leave?
What
did
you
want
to
come
here
for?”
somebody
said.
“I
couldn’t
help
it—I
couldn’t
help
it,”
Potter
moaned.
“I
wanted
to
run
away,
but
I
couldn’t
seem
to
come
anywhere
but
here.”
And
he
fell
to
sobbing
again.
Injun
Joe
repeated
his
statement,
just
as
calmly,
a
few
minutes
afterward
on
the
inquest,
under
oath;
and
the
boys,
seeing
that
the
lightnings
were
still
withheld,
were
confirmed
in
their
belief
that
Joe
had
sold
himself
to
the
devil.
He
was
now
become,
to
them,
the
most
balefully
interesting
object
they
had
ever
looked
upon,
and
they
could
not
take
their
fascinated
eyes
from
his
face.
They
inwardly
resolved
to
watch
him
nights,
when
opportunity
should
offer,
in
the
hope
of
getting
a
glimpse
of
his
dread
master.
Injun
Joe
helped
to
raise
the
body
of
the
murdered
man
and
put
it
in
a
wagon
for
removal;
and
it
was
whispered
through
the
shuddering
crowd
that
the
wound
bled
a
little!
The
boys
thought
that
this
happy
circumstance
would
turn
suspicion
in
the
right
direction;
but
they
were
disappointed,
for
more
than
one
villager
remarked:
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