The lawyer, Levi Bell, manages to get all three men to write a line for him. He pulls out some old letters and examines the handwriting, only to discover that none of three men had written the letters to Peter Wilks. The real Harvey Wilks explains that his brother had transcribed all his letters because his handwriting is so poor.
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(29) How does the real brother try to expose the frauds? Is he successful? The real brothers said that he knows the tattoo that Peter had on his chest but no one knows so they decided to dig up the body and when they didn't see the tattoo but they was gold and money, so nothing was resolved.Mar 14, 2022
What has delayed the arrival of the true Wilks brothers? They accidentally took the wrong train.
Summary: Chapter 29 Doctor Robinson again declares the duke and the dauphin to be frauds and has the crowd bring the real and the fraudulent Wilks brothers to a tavern for examination.
Huck tells everyone that his name is George Jackson and that he fell off a passing steamboat. The Grangerfords have a son named Buck, who is about Huck's age, and the two become close friends over the next few days.
The real Harvey Wilks asks the king to reveal what is tattooed onto Peter Wilks's chest. Whitening, the king at last says that it is a pale, blue arrow. The old man says that that's false, that his tattoo is really of the letters “P.B.W.” But the men who buried Peter Wilks say they saw no such mark.
Why is it necessary to dig up Peter Wilks' body? To see if Peter Wilk's really has a tattoo on his chest. After the body is dug up, how is Huck able to escape and get back to the raft?
Instead of accepting Huck's story, the lawyer tells Huck, "I wouldn't strain myself if I was you. I reckon you ain't used to lying . . . You do it pretty awkward." Although Huck's entire journey has been based on lies and deception, he is unable to fool intelligent men for even a moment.
Huck plays dumb ("Where's Jim gone to?") and the duke confesses that (1) the king sold him, and (2) he drank up all the money already. Huck cries. See, Jim was his property and it wasn't their right to sell him. But then he cuts himself off, thinking better of telling the truth.
After trying to pray for resolution, Huck writes a letter to Miss Watson detailing where Jim is and signs it "Huck Finn." After he finishes the letter, he feels momentary relief and is confident that he has saved himself from going to hell for helping a slave.
In the woods, Huck finds Buck and a nineteen-year-old Grangerford in a gunfight with the Shepherdsons. Both of the Grangerfords are killed. Deeply disturbed, Huck heads for Jim and the raft, and the two shove off downstream.
Who is Peter Wilks? A town drunk who turns out to be Huck's uncle.
The family in question is the Grangerfords, consisting of Colonel Grangerford, the father; the grandmother, known as 'the old lady'; Bob, the oldest son; Tom, second oldest; and then the daughters, Charlotte (age 25) and Sophia (age 20). There is also Buck, the youngest.