We learn that the central villain of this novel is the great-great-great grandson of John Smith.
We learn that the central villain of this novel is the great-great-great grandson of John Smith. That villain had earlier dressed up as a woman to flee town for killing a man, which he does with a precious Indian knife that he stole from another murderer. The central plot conceit arises due to Cecil Burleigh Essex's illicit affair with Roxana, and is also somewhat mirrored by the story of Luigi and Angelo, two Italian twins recently arrived in Dawson's Landing. The switching of Tom Driscoll and Chambers, a black and white baby, at birth is at the heart of, FTP, what Mark Twain novel?
We learn that the central villain of this novel is the great-great-great grandson of John Smith.
{Pudd’nhead Wilson}