Huck has difficulty abandoning friends, even when they pose an obvious danger to him. “Well,” he says of the Duke and the Dauphine, “it’s a rough gang, them two frauds, and I’m fixed so I got to travel with them a while longer, whether I want to or not. I druther not tell you why; and if you was to blow on them this town would get me out of their claws, and I’d be all right; but there’d be another that you don’t know about who’d be in big trouble. Well, we got to save HIM, hain’t we? Of course. Well, then, we won’t blow on them.”