After departing from all that is familiar, Finn must complete his initiation to heroism by passing many tests, especially one particularly large ordeal. As he begins this phase of his journey, with Jim accompanying him, they come across a “steamboat that had killed herself on a rock” (68) that happened to have a couple of murderers on board; feeling sympathetic for them he decides to help them out: “…I was feeling pretty ruther comfortable on accounts of taking all this trouble for the gang…I judged [the widow] would be proud of me for helping these rapscallions, because rapscallions is… the kind the widow and good people takes the most interest in” (78). Among other obstacles they face, they get separated in the fog and then they almost get Jim caught when they cross paths with two men looking for runaway slaves, during which time Huck contemplates whether to give him up: “My conscience got to stirring me up hotter than ever [when] along comes a skiff with two men in it, with guns…” (91-92). Later, Finn and Jim stumble across two different men who are both “being chased [with] men and dogs a-coming [for them]”; while at first they seem like allies, it is apparent they have neither Finn nor Jim’s best interest at heart when they steal a dead man’s fortune and enlist Huck’s help in making their lie more believable (122). After Huck interferes with this scheme to help the victims, the “rapscallions” decide to “nail” (160) Jim for a quick buck: “After all this long journey and after all we’d done them scoundrels, here was it all come to nothing, everything all busted up and ruined, because they could have the heart to serve Jim such a trick as that, and make him a slave again all his life, and amongst strangers, too, for forty dirty dollars” (214). It is this point in Finn’s journey where he is faced with the ordeal of either informing Miss Watson of Jim’s whereabouts, consequently preventing him