Exposure

Will Landschulz
Am Lit Per. 2
Mrs. LaMagdeleine

Huck, in these chapters, finally takes a stand against the cruelty of the Duke and the King.  He does this finally because he sees Mary Jane, one of the daughters of the family who the Duke and King are cheating.  She's crying over the separation of a slave family (by You-Know-Whom) and their sale from the estate.  Huck, guilty over the grief she's feeling, takes the money from the charlatans and hides it in the coffin.  However, the best-laid plans of mice and men often go astray, and the coffin is sealed without anyone noticing the bag of money inside.  Huck, thinking that he'll never know whether the con men escape, tells Mary Jane of the Duke and the King's deception.  He tells her that her face is too innocent to avoid notice, and that she cannot face them without her expression tipping the frauds off.  He sends her to a relative's house, thus sending her away from the malevolence of the Duke and the King.