At this point Huck begins to struggle with their plan and takes the gold from them and hides it so that the girls will have that. Huck is rather proud of his actions. Huck appears to have developed an affinity for being moral which is a trait that people often associate with being civilized. First he stops the duke and king from completely ruining the girls, then although he does not come clean he blames the heist on a group of slaves that the duke and king had sold. Although he did lie he “felt awful glad [he’d] work it all off onto the n******, and yet hadn’t done the n******* no harm by it” (196). Huck takes action on the injustice he feels about the king and the duke conning the girls, this is a very moral thing to do, he takes none of the money for himself and he also does not take any credit, he just leaves a note for the girls so that they can find and take back the money. After this entire encounter Huck does not appear to be as favorable toward the two con artists but has discovered within himself a sense of morality which is often considered to be a good trait of being