1. Huck Finn
Chapters Summary

2. Chapter 19 Continue Journey down the river
Huck goes ashore and meets two men who are running from trouble
Both men are con men and are escaping angry townspeople
They fool Huck and Jim by saying that they are an English Duke and the heir to the throne in France (dauphin)

3. Chapter 20 Huck tells the duke and king that he is orphaned
The duke and king take Huck and Jim’s beds and make them stand watch during a storm
New con: fool townspeople during a revival
King says he’s a pirate who has been reformed
People take up a collection for him
Duke and king plan a performance of Shakespeare
Claim to be escorting Jim to turn him in for a reward

4. Chapter 21
Duke and king practice scenes from Romeo and Juliet, Richard III, and Hamlet
They obviously don’t know the plays, but Huck thinks the duke is very talented
Town in Arkansas
Post handbills for performance
Huck witnesses the shooting of a drunk by Sherburn
People decide to hang Sherburn

5. Chapter 22
After giving a speech about mob mentality with a rifle in hand, Sherburn is spared by the lynch mob.
Huck goes to the circus but can’t bear to watch the performers in “danger.”
Only 12 people come to the duke and king’s first performance and jeer.
Duke prints a new advertisement, saying women and children are not admitted to the performance

6. Chapter 23 The next performance of “The Royal Nonesuch” is sold out.
The duke and king put on only a brief show, which upsets the audience
People want everyone to get ripped off, so they say the show was excellent
Knowing on the third night that the townspeople are going to get their revenge, the duke, king, and Huck leave with the $465 they have earned
Jim tells Huck about his family that he misses
Beat his daughter Lizabeth for not obeying
Found out later that Lizabeth was deaf

7. Chapter 24
Jim is scared to be left alone on the raft during trips to town, so the duke paints his face blue and calls him a “Sick Arab.”
The king hears about a recently deceased man named Peter Wilks, who had sent for his two English brothers before he died.
Wilks left a lot of money to these brothers
One brother is deaf and mute
The duke and king enter town, posing as the brothers.

8. Chapter 25
Wilks’s nieces and the town tearfully great the duke and the king
The nieces are left $3,000 in the will; the brothers are left another $3,000
Duke and king find the money. Since it is short of the promised $6,000, they add in some of their own money.
With a great show for the town, the duke and king give the nieces the entire $6,000
Dr. Robinson, an old friend of Wilks, calls the men frauds and urges Mary Jane, one of Wilks’s nieces, to see this.
Mary Jane gives the entire $6,000 to the duke and king to invest how they choose

9. Chapter 26 The duke, king, and Huck have dinner at the Wilks home
Three nieces: Mary Jane, Susan, Joanna (the “hare-lip”)
Huck resolves to get the money back for the girls
Huck sneaks into the duke and king’s room, takes the $6,000 in gold, and sneaks out

10. Chapter 27
Interrupted by Mary Jane, Huck hides the money in Peter Wilks’s coffin.
The money gets sealed inside the coffin before Huck can get back to it
The king sells off the Wilks’s estate, saying he’s going to take the girls to England
Separates the Wilks’s slaves: a mother and her two sons
Huck makes the con men think that the slaves took the money when questioned.

11. Chapter 28
Huck finds Mary Jane crying, sad over the separation of the slave family
Huck tells her the truth and then instructs her to stay with friends until he is sure Jim can be safe
Huck leaves her a note with the location of the money
The next day, a mob interrupts the auction of the Wilks’s belongings. Two men arrive who claim to be Peter Wilks’s actual brothers

12. Chapter 29
The real brothers explain why they were late arriving, and the doctor declares the duke and the king are frauds. However, the duke and the king cannot produce the $6,000.
A series of tests are done to see who the real brothers are
The body of Peter Wilks is exhumed to check for a tattoo, and the money is found.
Huck escapes and sails with Jim down the river.
The duke and king catch up to them in a boat.

13. Chapter 30 The men are angry with Huck for leaving them.
The duke and the king each suspect that the other hid the money to take it later.
They almost fight over it, but go to sleep.