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Chapter 41:  Huck goes off the island to find a doctor for Tom.  The doctor goes to the island on the canoe, which only holds one person.  The next day, Huck encounters Silas.  Silas takes Huck back to the farm.  The home is full other farmers and their wives discussing the escape.  Sally refuses to let Huck go find Tom.  She was very upset over the loss of them once.  Huck promises not to hurt Sally again.

Chapter 42:  Tom arrives back at the farm with Jim and the doctor.  Jim is returned to the shed and treated very badly.  Sally is very delighted that Tom is getting better.  Tom tells Huck that he had been stealing the letters from Polly to Sally.  One letter said that Miss Watson died and let Jim go free.  Polly shows up at the farm.  After the reunion, she yells at the two boys for lying to Sally.

Chapter 43: Huck asks Tom why he tried to set Jim free when Tom already knew Jim was free.  Tom planned to have the adventure and then pay back Jim later.  When the doctor tells Polly and the Phelps family about how Jim nursed Tom, they immediately released Jim.  Tom fully recovers and wears the bullet as a necklace.  Huck finds out that the dead body he and Jim found on the river was his Pap.  Finally, Huck decides to head out west.




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