The boys went carefully through the tunnels with their string. Then Tom stopped.
‘I saw Injun Joe about here,’ he said. ‘And look, Huck – there’s the cross!’
There was a big smoke cross on the tunnel wall. The boys looked up and down the tunnel, but there was no box of money.
‘Injun Joe said under the cross,’ said Tom. ‘Perhaps it’s under the ground. Look, we can move these stones.’
The boys took their knives and began to dig by the tunnel wall. They climbed down into it and came into a small room. There was a bed, two whiskey bottles, some old shoes – and the box of money.
When somebody finds treasures, everybody hears about it very quickly. The two boys carried the box through the village. And when they got to Aunt Polly’s house, all the village was with them. Everybody went into the house.
‘Oh, Tom, Tom!’ cried Aunt Polly. ‘What is it now? And what have you got here?’
Tom put the box on the table and opened it.
There were twelve thousand dollars in that box. And suddenly, Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn were the richest people in St Petersburg.
