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Show journal whitt the ink wa: f'n,:.;h; the pen .. was mad<', the in~ cri ption: and o on '"as a 11 can· cl on the gnncl t ne ; 11w be<llrg wa.' RCl,WP<l in two, an<l w ~ hacl ct up ~h aw<ln.'t, and it aivr n .. a 1nost :nn:lzing .·tonwch-ache. "\\ e r ckoncd we wa, ~ll going to die, but di<ln't. ft wa. the 1110 t un<ligestihlc aw< lu. ·t I ever . ee · an<l To1n . a i< l the . arne. Bnt as I was saying, 've \1 got all the work done, now, at ln. t. ; and \Ve 'va. all pretty Jnuch f:lgge<l oni, too, but 1nainly .Tirn. The old man had wrot<' a coupl<' of t irnrs to the plantation below Orleans to come and get i1H·ir runaway nigger, but hacln't got no answer, because ther warn't no such plantati n; , o he allowed he would adverti P Ji1n in th Rt. Louis a11d N w Orlean. paper ; and when he Jnentionr<l the St. Louis on s, it give Jne the cold TilE S TRA 11,. lJ f./JfJ f 1 ~. •) I"IC) t)ilt .hivers,anl I: we hadn't noii1n to ]m.;<'. Ro Tmn ~aid, now for t h nonnamou;-; let tC'rs. "\YhnCs them?· I .·ay:. "\Yarnings t the p oplr that somct hing is up. Rnlll(1tinH.'s it's don<' one way, :otnetime. anoth r. But t h n:s always somebody spying aroun<l, that giv s notic(' to iltc govC'rnor of the castle. \rhen J.Joui · -' .. VI. was going to light out of the Tool ries, a .·ervant girl don it. If.· a very crood way, and . o is the nonn£nnou: letters. \V ·n u. e i he111 both. And it's usual for th pri. oner' moth r t change cl the: with him, and she tay. in, an<l he .·li<le · one in her c·lot he.-. \r '11 <lo that too.'' "Rut looky her , Tom, what c1o '"e want t ~uaJ'Il anybody for, that'H smnething 's up ? Let t he1n find it out fort hc1nselv s -it's their look-out:' " ·ye~, I know; but yon can·t cl }pend on thr1n. If the way they've acted from th v ry start-· I ft u. to c1 e?H! J'ythinr;. Th y'rc o confiding an<l mnll<~t-headed they don •t tak no tic of nothing at all. Ro if we don't give th m notic<} there won'i be nobody nor nothing to int rferc with u , and so aft r all onr hard work ancl trouble thi. e:cape 11 go off perfectly flat: 'von·t amount to nothing-won't be not.hing to it." "\\Tell, as for 1n , To1n, that's the way I'd like:· "Shucks;' he says, and look <l di. gut 'd. Ho I :ays : "But I ain·t going to 1nake 110 con1plaint. Anyway that suit: you ·nits m . \Vhat you going to do ab nt th eryantgirl? " "1Ton·n he her. You slide in, in the 1ni(hlle of the night, and hook that yaller girl' frock." "V?hy, Tom, that'll mak trouble next Jnorning; becau:·e of conr. e . he prob 'bly hain't got any but that on . · "I know; but you don·t want it but fifteen 1ninut ', to carry the nonna1nous letter and . hove it under the front <.loor. ,, |
