Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Chapter Thirty Summary
- Huck makes up a story to explain his running away so the duke and king won’t think he was trying to betray them.
- Of course, then the question arises: how did the gold get into the coffin?
- The duke and the king, reminding us that there is not only no honor, but no trust among thieves, turn on each other, each thinking his partner was trying to make off with the cash.
- The duke starts strangling the king.
- To avoid asphyxiation, the king "confesses" to stealing and hiding the cash.
- Then they get drunk together and pass out in the raft’s wigwam, with all forgotten and forgiven in a haze of booze.
- Huck tells Jim the whole story.
