What do we see about the frauds’ character in this episode? What does their treachery in selling Jim make Huck determined to do? CH 29-33

Huck and the Duke search for quite some time, and finally find the King in a tavern. Soon, both the Duke and King are drunk.Huck sees his chance and runs straight back to the raft, but when he arrives Jim is gone. A young man on the road tells him Jim, a runaway slave, was just captured and sold to the Phelps family, down the road. Huck realizes that in an effort to make some money, the King had snuck back to the raft while he and the Duke had been searching for him, took Jim, sold him for forty dollars, and returned to the town to drink. This confirms that the king and duke are not simply comic relief. They are nasty people who are not loyal to anyone but themselves.