• Huck finds Mary Jane packing for England and crying because she feels bad for the slaves who had been separated 
• Huck blurts out “But they will – inside of two weeks- I know it!” to reassure her not to worry about the slaves. Mary asks how he knows this 
• Huck studies the issue in his head – decides the truth is safer then a lie and tells Mary Jane about her “uncles” being frauds and devises a plan 
• Plan: Mary Jane will go to Mr. Lorthrop and stay till 9:00, 9:30. If she gets home before 11 she is to put a candle in her window, it at 11 Huck still is not there she is to spread the word that the men are fakes. If
• Huck is still around she is to stand behind him. 
• Huck writes on a piece of paper “Royal Nonesuch, Brickbille” where they can find witness and writes that she will find the gold in the coffin, and that he is sorry for her 
• Mary Jane thanks Huck and tells him she will never forget him and that she will pray for him 
• Huck thinks that is to big a job for her, but thinks she will do it, because she is “full of sand.” 
• He never sees her again but thinks of her “a many million times” and would pray for her if he thought it would do any good for him 
• He tells the other girls Mary went to tend to sick girl, but to only tell the “uncles” that she is trying to get Mr. Apthorps to buy their house 
• Auction held in public square with the old man “chipping in a little scripture” 
• Every thing sold when a steam boat landed 

• Huck: narrator of story – playing servant to Harvey and William Wilks 
• “The King”: con man who is pretending to be Harvey Wilks (priest from England) to be brother to Peter
• Wilks (dead man with fortune) and William Wilks 
• Bridgewater/ “The Duke”: con man that is pretending to be the deaf and dumb William Wilks, brother to Peter and Harvey 
• Mary Jane Wilks: niece of William, Harvey and Peter, agrees to go along with Huck's plan to stop her fake uncles 
• Susan Wilks: niece of William, Harvey and Peter, sister to Mary Jane and “Hare-lip” 
• “Hare-lip”: niece of William, Harvey and Peter, sister to Susan and Mary Jane 

• Huck is normally very good about thinking before he speaks what could have caused Huck to slip and tell Mary Jane the slaves will be back together in two weeks? What does Huck’s hesitation to tell the truth to Mary Jane tell us about him and his past? What does Huck’s decision to tell the truth tell us about him and a possible future for himself? In this instance what could have motivated him to tell the truth, a change in character or selfish desire to get rid of the Duke and the King. 
  
• Right after talking to Mary Jane and deciding the truth is sometimes safer Huck lies to the other girls, what do these instances say about Huck’s feeling on lying? Do you think Hucks’s feelings and attitude towards lieing will change as time goes on? 
  Are some lies “good” as in they are all right to tell and others bad, and if so what are some examples of the two kinds in the book. 

• “I reckon a body that ups and tells the truth when he is in a tight place, is taking considerable many resks, though I ain’t had no experience, and can’t say for certain; but it looks so to me, anyway; and yet here’s a case where I’m blest if it don’t look to me like the truth is better, and actually safer, then a lie. I must lay it by in my mind, and think it over some time or other, its so kind of strange and unregular.” – P.188 

- Here for the first time Huck stops and evaluates his lying. While he does not condone lying he does decide that in this case the truth might be safer although he has his doubts. He decides he will have to think it over later, which shows Huck’s ideas and morals are expanding beyond those he knew and was taught. 

• “But I reckon I’ve thought of her a many a mill ion times, and of her saying she would pray for me; and if ever I’d thought it would do any good for me to pray for her, blamed if I wouldn’t a done it or bust. – P.193 

- Huck again mulls over the idea of religion. He believes himself to be so bad that him praying for someone would not do good, which is why he doesn’t pray for Mary even though he wants to. This is one of the few times he wants to repay and do some good for someone. This shows some growth in him. 

• Huck tells Mary Jane about the slaves not because he feels bad that they were sold and separated but because he feels bad that Mary Jane feels bad. 
• Mary Jane states that “we’ll have them tarred and feathered, and flung into the river” with out any mention of a trail or any legal system of proving the to men’s guilt. 
• Huck acts as if it is a bad thing that Mary Jane’s face isn’t “one of these leather face people” and that she doesn’t hide all of her emotions and feelings and can’t hide a lie. 
• Right after Huck decides that in some cases the truth is safer he lies to Susan and “Hare-lip”. Is it for the greater good or just out of habit? 
• The girls then lie to their “uncles” so that their trip to England won’t be postponed. There is no one to point out how these acts of lying might be wrong.