Tom was very tired after three days in the cave, and he went to bed and stayed there for two days. He heard about Huck and went to see him on Sunday, and then every day. But Mrs Douglas was always in the room.
‘You can just say hello,’ she told Tom. ‘And then you must go. Huck is very ill, and he needs to sleep.’
So Tom could not tell Huck about Injun Joe.
One day, about two weeks after the picnic, Tom was in Becky’s house, and her father came in.
‘Well, Tom,’ Mr Thatcher said. ‘Would you like to go back to the cave again, one day?’
‘I’m not afraid of the cave,’ said Tom.
Mr Thatcher laughed. There are a lot of people like you, Tom. But nobody’s going into the cave again. There are big doors across the cave mouth now – and nobody can open them!’
‘Tom’s face went white. ‘But Mr Thatcher – Injun Joe’s in that cave!’
An hour later, fifty men were at the cave and they opened the doors. Injun Joe was on the ground, dead, his face to the door and his knife in his hand.
