"Your father is a preacher, isn't he?"
"Yes, sir."
"And you have been raised to tell the truth and do your duty?"
"Yes, sir—but the flesh is weak."
"And the flesh pots are tempting," said Major Abbott right quick, "and you love treasure and love to live over the life of Tom Sawyer, a boy who never lived?"
"I can't answer that."
"Why?"
"Well, I love treasure, that is I love to find it—but I'm not livin' over Tom Sawyer's life any more than is natural."
"But it is true that you deceived your father, it is true you ran away, it is true you meant to run away from the court—all this is true?"
"Yes, sir."