Inside the story
Meet The Duke
The Duke is a young con man who comes aboard Huck and Jim’s raft and claims to be the disinherited Duke of Bridgewater. Traveling with the man he calls the king, he uses rigged shows and false identities to swindle river towns, including posing as one of the Wilks brothers.
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A shabby, sharp-featured young grifter of about thirty, thin-faced and quick-eyed, dressed in ragged clothes when first met but quick to deck himself out in stolen finery and theatrical costume for his cons.
