from a guy , that his dad died and left money and land and he never meet his brothers so they pretend to be them to get the money.
The Wilks Brothers plan to steal the money left in the will.
The duke and king pretended to be the long-lost brothers of the Wilks family and claimed inheritance rights to their fortune. They convinced the townspeople of their identity through deception and manipulation, ultimately swindling the Wilks family out of their money.
Mary Jane
Huck hides the Wilks girls' inheritance in the coffins of their deceased relatives, Peter Wilks and his brothers. He places the money in Peter Wilks's coffin, hoping it will be safe there.
The duke and the king impersonate relatives of Peter Wilks to deceive the townspeople and claim Peter Wilks' inheritance for themselves. They hope to capitalize on the townspeople's sympathy towards the Wilks family to manipulate the situation in their favor and make off with the money.
Huck hides the Wilks family's treasure in the coffin of Peter Wilks before it is buried to keep it safe from the King and the Duke.
In "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn", the King impersonates Peter Wilks, a deceased Englishman, while the Duke impersonates Reverend Harvey Wilks, Peter Wilks's long-lost brother. They attempt to fraudulently claim Peter Wilks's inheritance by deceiving the townspeople.
Harvey Wilks is a character in Mark Twain's "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn." He is the deceased brother of the wealthy Peter Wilks and is central to a subplot involving a con carried out by the Duke and the King, who impersonate Harvey and his brother. The story highlights themes of deception and morality, as Huck grapples with the ethics of the Duke and the King's scheme against the Wilks family. Huck ultimately decides to help the Wilks daughters by exposing the fraud.
Wilks family is the target of one of the duke and the king's most conniving scams. The two cons learn from a young man that Peter Wilkes has just passed away. Peter Wilks's niecesâ??Mary Jane, Susan, and Joanna are about to inherit the family estate, since their mom and dad passed away the year before.
The King and the Duke give themselves away through their lack of knowledge about the people and places they are trying to impersonate, their crude behavior, and their general incompetence at acting like gentlemen. Additionally, their accents, mannerisms, and manner of speech reveal their true identities to those who know them.
They justify it by saying its helping the Wilks sisters
He gives it to Judge Thatcher for safekeeping so that Pap can't get it