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Show 144 Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. to bring your ch ildrcn to be ·with yon. I an: sorry for yon, Linda. 1 hope they \Y ill treat you 1 ktn.uly." I hurried from the roo1n, unable to thanK hun. :Th fy su p1c10n were correct. ~Iy chih1rcn ·were to Le brought to the plantation to he "broke in." To this day I feel grateful to the gcntlcn1an who gave 1ne this ti1ncly infor1nation. It n erved 1nc to immediate action. . ~ l 1'he Flight. XVII. TilE FLlGIIT. 1fR. FLINT ·was h ard pn ·hod for honsc sorvan L. , and rather than l ose n1e he haJ. restrained hi.· n1alicc. I did 1ny work faithfully, thou;rh not, of cour~e, with a willing n1ind. '"rhcy wore cvidonLly afraid I ,·bould leaYo tbcn1. ~Ir. Flint wi~hccl that I .·hould , loop in tho groat h on ·e instead of tho servants' quarters. His wife agreed to tho proponiUon, unt said I n1u.·tn't bring 1ny ted into the h ou~o, lwcause it \vonlll scatter feathers on her carpet. I know \vhon I \vent th ·rc that they ·would nov r thin1~ of such a thing as furnishing a 1Jccl of a ny kintl for 1110 and 1ny little one. I therefore carriecln1y own l>cd, and now I wa.· forlJiLlden to usc i t. I did as I \ras ordered. But now that I was certain n1y children \YOre to 1Jc pnt in their power, in order to gi \ 'C tlt 111 a .·Lrollgcr hol<l on me, I resolved to leave then1 that 11ight. lrenlCJnbcrcd the grief thi step \vouhl bring u pun rny dear old granclmothcr; and n othing l os. than the frccdon1 of 1ny children would base inclnccd n1e to di~l·cgard her advice. I went about n1y evening \Vork \Yith trc1u1Jling steps. ~fr. Flint twice called fron1 his chan1bcr door to inquire why tho house " raf-' not locked up. I r eplied that I had not done n1y ' vork. "You ha\TC had tin1c enough to do it," said h e. "Take care how you ans\rcr 1ne!" I shut all the ·windows, locked all the doors, and Went up to the third ~tory, to \r :1 it till n1idnight. How 1:) |