In the next town where they want to work, the dolphin meets a talkative man who tells him about a recently deceased local man, Peter Wilks. Wilks had recently brought his two brothers over from England. Wilks left much of his property to these brothers when he died, but it does not seem certain that the brothers will arrive. Arriving in Wilks' hometown, the Duke and Dauphin ask for Wilks and feign anguish when they learn of his death. The scene is enough to make Huck “ashamed of the human race” (162). A crowd gathers outside the Wilks house to watch Wilks' three nieces greet the Duke and Dauphin, who they think are their uncles. Huck has “never seen anything so disgusting” (164). As the plot unfolds, the dauphin sells the estate and the slaves, sending an enslaved mother to New Orleans and her two sons to Memphis. The scene of the grieving family's separation is heartbreaking and the Wilks women are distraught. Huck takes comfort in knowing that the slave family will be reunited in about a week when the Duke and Dauphin are exposed. The next morning, Huck finds Mary Jane crying in her room. All his joy from the trip to England gave way to the distress caused by the separation of the slave family. Touched, Huck blurts out without thinking that the family will be reunited in less than two weeks. Mary Jane, delighted, asks Huck to