汤姆·索亚历险记》（The Adventures of Tom Sawyer）是美国小说家马克·吐温1876年发表的长篇小说。
小说的故事发生在19世纪上半世纪美国密西西比河畔的一个普通小镇上。主人公汤姆·索亚天真活泼、敢于探险、追求自由，不堪忍受束缚个性、枯燥乏味的生活，幻想干一番英雄事业。
小说的时代在南北战争前，写的虽是圣彼得堡小镇，但该镇某种程度上可以说是当时美国社会的缩影。小说通过主人公的冒险经历，对美国虚伪庸俗的社会习俗、伪善的宗教仪式和刻板陈腐的学校教育进行了讽刺和批判，以欢快的笔调描写了少年儿童自由活泼的心灵。
第二十五章 掘地寻宝，空手而归
一天，汤姆想要去寻宝，便和哈克伯利到了一个寡妇的房子后面的一棵枯树的影子下面，准备去挖海盗们留下的财宝，可是没有挖到海盗们遗留下来的宝贝，他们又约定明天白天一起去一间阴森可怕的闹鬼的房子里去碰碰运气。
CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE
Was it all just a Dream?
Tom had difficult dreams that night. All he could think about was the money. Each time he dreamed that the money was his and he imagined himself spending it in all kinds of ways: buying a new house for his aunt, buying himself a nice boat, and so on. But with each dream disappointment followed because he would wake up and find himself the same young man whose most valuable possession was a gold ball, which the girl he loved didn't want.
Tom had never seen so much money before. It was almost unbelievable to him that someone could have found that much money in his village. Then he began to doubt that any of it had been real at all. He thought that maybe the whole thing had been a dream.
Early next morning Tom went looking for Huckleberry. When he found him he planned not to say anything about the money. If Huckleberry didn't mention it, then Tom would know it had all just been a dream.
He found him at the river sitting on the side of a boat, looking sad.
"Hello, Huck!"
"Hello."
Huck was silent for a moment and then he said:
"We were so stupid to leave our tools down in that room! We could have found that money instead of Indian Joe!"
"Wow! It wasn't a dream!"
"Dream? No way! If those stairs hadn't broken when Indian Joe was walking up them we wouldn't be here today!"
"Huck, we have to find him! We have to get that money! I remember them saying something about 'number two' when they were talking about the secret hiding place. It could be the number of a house or something."
"But none of the houses in this village have numbers."
"Hmm. Well, maybe it's a room number in one of the public houses for travelers."
"You may be right, Tom! This village only has two of those!"
"Wait for me here, Huck. I'll be right back."
A half-hour later Tom returned. He'd asked about room number two in both public houses and found out that in one of them there lived a young man whom everybody knew, but no one was sure who lived in the other public house. One man said that, the night before, he had seen a light in the window there.
"That must be Indian Joe's room, Huck."
"Yes, it must be. So what's our plan, Tom?"
"Well, we still have to make sure that it's Indian Joe's room. If you see him sometime in the next day or two, follow him. If he doesn't go there, it must not be his room. If it is his room, I think we should be able to easily get in at night, because the entrance is around the back and no one will see us."
"I don't want to follow him by myself, Tom!"
"Well you know he won't come to the village until dark, so he probably won't see you. I promise you that I'll follow him if I see him. You have to be strong if you want to find that money, Huck!"
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