Poter poveruje. Tom i Hak se kunu na bure sa duvanom da nikada nikome neće reći istinu. Ali krivica gori. Kada suđenje počne i kada jasno postane da će nevinog Mefa Potera obesiti, Tom ne može da izdrži.
Tom i Huck kreću u potragu za skrivenim blagom. U napuštenoj kući vide prerušenog Indijanca Joea koji pronalazi kovčeg sa zlatom i planira osvetu. Izgubljeni u spilji i sretan kraj Poglavlje 31–32: McDougalova spilja tom sojer prepricano po glavama
After finishing the fence, Tom reports to Aunt Polly, who is so impressed she gives him an apple. On his way out, he also steals a doughnut. He then goes to the town square, where he encounters the "new girl"—Becky Thatcher, a blue-eyed beauty with yellow hair braided into two pigtails. Tom falls instantly in love, showing off with somersaults and fence-vaulting. But when he whispers, "I love you," she calls him a liar and walks away. Humiliated, Tom goes home and goes to bed. Aunt Polly, thinking he’s sick, gives him medicine. Sid snitches that Tom said the medicine was "bitter," so Tom pours the medicine down a crack in the floor—only to discover a cat drinking it and leaping out the window in a frenzy. Poter poveruje
Tom Sawyer was a mischievous young boy living with his Aunt Polly and his half-brother, Sid, in the town of St. Petersburg, Missouri (along the Mississippi River). He was always getting into trouble, skipping school to go swimming or fighting with local boys. Kada suđenje počne i kada jasno postane da
Tom i Huck pronalaze blago u spilji i postaju bogati. Udovica Douglas posvaja Hucka kako bi ga "civilizirala".