A party rushes down to the cave, unlocks the door, and finds
Injun Joe starved to death inside. He evidently has eaten the
few bats he could catch, used every candle stump he could find,
and made a cup out of rock and placed it under a dripping
stalactite to catch a spoonful of water a day. “Injun Joe’s
Cup,” Twain informs us, has since become one of the chief
tourist attractions in the cave. The morning after Injun Joe’s
funeral, Tom tells Huck his theory that the gold never was in
Room No. 2 at the Temperance Tavern. Instead, he believes that
it remains hidden in the cave. That afternoon, the boys take a
raft down to the place where Tom and Becky exited the cave and
crawl inside. Tom comments on how much he wants to start a gang
of robbers and use this part of the cave as a hideout. The boys
discuss how grand it would be to be robbers and eventually reach
the place where Tom encountered Injun Joe. Tom points out a
cross that is burned on the wall of the cave and tells Huck that
this, not the tavern, must be