{"id":"01KG179QXJ4MC5EGX3C1KNPTR2","cid":"bafkreiapdnhoip37yrevhvgk5asvci6l25nlql5agmmmspodzdsg7soxpm","type":"chunk","properties":{"end_line":6911,"extracted_at":"2026-01-28T02:35:39.630Z","extracted_by":"structure-extraction-lambda","label":"Chunk 1","source_file":"01KG0K71QZ8KK7RGEGSNTB5534","start_line":6834,"text":"CHAPTER XXVII\r\n\r\n\r\nThe adventure of the day mightily tormented Tom’s dreams that night.\r\nFour times he had his hands on that rich treasure and four times\r\nit wasted to nothingness in his fingers as sleep forsook him and\r\nwakefulness brought back the hard reality of his misfortune. As he lay\r\nin the early morning recalling the incidents of his great adventure, he\r\nnoticed that they seemed curiously subdued and far away—somewhat as if\r\nthey had happened in another world, or in a time long gone by. Then it\r\noccurred to him that the great adventure itself must be a dream! There\r\nwas one very strong argument in favor of this idea—namely, that the\r\nquantity of coin he had seen was too vast to be real. He had never seen\r\nas much as fifty dollars in one mass before, and he was like all boys of\r\nhis age and station in life, in that he imagined that all references to\r\n“hundreds” and “thousands” were mere fanciful forms of speech, and that\r\nno such sums really existed in the world. He never had supposed for\r\na moment that so large a sum as a hundred dollars was to be found in\r\nactual money in any one’s possession. If his notions of hidden treasure\r\nhad been analyzed, they would have been found to consist of a handful of\r\nreal dimes and a bushel of vague, splendid, ungraspable dollars.\r\n\r\nBut the incidents of his adventure grew sensibly sharper and clearer\r\nunder the attrition of thinking them over, and so he presently found\r\nhimself leaning to the impression that the thing might not have been a\r\ndream, after all. This uncertainty must be swept away. He would snatch a\r\nhurried breakfast and go and find Huck.\r\n\r\nHuck was sitting on the gunwale of a flatboat, listlessly dangling his\r\nfeet in the water and looking very melancholy. Tom concluded to let Huck\r\nlead up to the subject. If he did not do it, then the adventure would be\r\nproved to have been only a dream.\r\n\r\n“Hello, Huck!”\r\n\r\n“Hello, yourself.”\r\n\r\nSilence, for a minute.\r\n\r\n“Tom, if we’d ’a’ left the blame tools at the dead tree, we’d ’a’ got\r\nthe money. Oh, ain’t it awful!”\r\n\r\n“’Tain’t a dream, then, ’tain’t a dream! Somehow I most wish it was.\r\nDog’d if I don’t, Huck.”\r\n\r\n“What ain’t a dream?”\r\n\r\n“Oh, that thing yesterday. I been half thinking it was.”\r\n\r\n“Dream! If them stairs hadn’t broke down you’d ’a’ seen how much dream\r\nit was! I’ve had dreams enough all night—with that patch-eyed Spanish\r\ndevil going for me all through ’em—rot him!”\r\n\r\n“No, not rot him. _Find_ him! Track the money!”\r\n\r\n“Tom, we’ll never find him. A feller don’t have only one chance for such\r\na pile—and that one’s lost. I’d feel mighty shaky if I was to see him,\r\nanyway.”\r\n\r\n“Well, so’d I; but I’d like to see him, anyway—and track him out—to his\r\nNumber Two.”\r\n\r\n“Number Two—yes, that’s it. I been thinking ’bout that. But I can’t make\r\nnothing out of it. What do you reckon it is?”\r\n\r\n“I dono. It’s too deep. Say, Huck—maybe it’s the number of a house!”\r\n\r\n“Goody!... No, Tom, that ain’t it. If it is, it ain’t in this one-horse\r\ntown. They ain’t no numbers here.”\r\n\r\n“Well, that’s so. Lemme think a minute. Here—it’s the number of a\r\nroom—in a tavern, you know!”\r\n\r\n“Oh, that’s the trick! They ain’t only two taverns. We can find out\r\nquick.”\r\n\r\n“You stay here, Huck, till I come.”\r\n\r","title":"Chunk 1"},"relationships":[{"peer":"01KG176GXP2W1E7PYBBVDYNNBE","peer_label":"CHAPTER XXVII","peer_type":"chapter","predicate":"in"},{"peer":"01KG0K71QZ8KK7RGEGSNTB5534","peer_label":"tom_sawyer.txt","peer_type":"file","predicate":"extractedFrom"},{"peer":"01KFXT0KM64XT6K8W52TDEE0YS","peer_label":"More Classics","peer_type":"collection","predicate":"collection"},{"peer":"01KG179QXW57Z6FHZ2BWHQ3ZW5","peer_label":"Chunk 2","peer_type":"chunk","predicate":"next"}],"ver":2,"created_at":"2026-01-28T02:35:40.004Z","ts":"2026-01-28T02:35:40.829Z","edited_by":{"method":"manual","user_id":"01KFF0H3YRP9ZSM033AM0QJ47H"}}