uke begin to rehearse for a Shakespearean productionthey plan on performing in some town along the way. They end up stopping at asmall town in Arkansas where a circus is already going on. The show the fraudsput on is three nights long so the two con men can persuade the audiences ofthe first two nights into coming the third night. But after collecting the money onthe third night, they escape to the raft, and end up cheating the town out of fourhundred and sixty-five dollars. When they are back on the raft the duke decidesto dress up Jim as an Arab so they do not always have to leave him tied upwhen they leave the raft. Also in this chapter they meet a fellow who thinks theking is a Mr. Wilks, whose brother Peter Wilks just died and supposedly left hisbrothers a fortune. Finding this interesting, the king asks this fellow all kinds ofquestions like about his family, and other people that live in his town. He findsout that Mr. Wilks had a brother who is deaf and dumb, so the king and dukedecide to go take the steamboat to this town posing as the Wilks' brothers in thehopes of gaining this fortune. This plan is hardly pulled off though when the realWilks brothers arrive in town a few weeks later. Huck manages to escape backto the raft, but he soon hears the king and duke behind them, upset that Huckwould take off and leave them behind to get caught. In the following chapter, theking and duke are fearful of stopping at any towns along the way, but as soon asthey feel it is safe they begin to pull their little tricks again which makes Huckand Jim rather uncomfortable. One day the king went ashore and sold Jim as arunaway slave. After discovering this, Huck struggles with the many choices thatface him. He could either write Miss Watson a letter to return Jim or keep ontrying to get the man free. He chooses the latter and finds out Jim is at thePhelps plantation, not too far away. In the following chapter, Huck goes to theplant...
