and get up that selfish theory that there ain't been any murder? None in
the world. I don't see how you can act so. I wouldn't treat you like
that, and you know it. Here we've got a noble good opportunity to make a
ruputation, and--"

"Oh, go ahead," I says. "I'm sorry, and I take it all back. I didn't
mean nothing. Fix it any way you want it. HE ain't any consequence to
me. If he's killed, I'm as glad of it as you are; and if he--"

"I never said anything about being glad; I only--"

"Well, then, I'm as SORRY as you are. Any way you druther have it, that
is the way I druther have it. He--"

"There ain't any druthers ABOUT it, Huck Finn; nobody said anything about
druthers. And as for--"

He forgot he was talking, and went tramping along, studying. He begun to
get excited again, and pretty soon he says:

"Huck, it'll be the bulliest thing that ever happened if we find the body
after everybody else has quit looking, and then go ahead and hunt up the
murderer. It won't only be an honor to us, but it'll be an honor to
Uncle Silas because it was us that done it. It'll set him up again, you
see if it don't."

But Old Jeff Hooker he throwed cold water on the whole business when we
got to his blacksmith shop and told him what we come for.

"You can take the dog," he says, "but you ain't a-going to find any