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Show !66 Incidents in the Life of a Slave G-irl. Great surpri. c \vas cxprc sed ·when it \vas known that 1uy children had returned to their grancltnoihc.r's. The new pread through the town, _and. nutny a loud word was be ·towed on the little oHcs. Dr. Fliut \Ycnt to my grand1nothcr's to a. certain \vho was the owner of n1y children, and she infor1ncu hin1. ''I expected as 1nuch," said he. "I a1n glad to hear it. I have had now fro1u Linda lately, and I [')hall soon haYo her. You need noYcr expect to see her free. She shall be n1y laYo as long a. I live, and. when I a1n dead she shall be tho slave of n1y clrildrcu. If I eYer find out that you or Phillip had any thing to do with her running off I'll kill hin1. And if I n1cct \Yilliatn in the street, and. he presu1ncs to look at 1nc, I'll flog hi1n within an inch of his life. Keep those brats out of 1ny sight! " As he turned to leaYo, 1ny granchnothcr said :onlething to ren1ind hin1 of his own doing . lie looked back upon her, as if he ·would. haYc been glad to strike her to the ground. I had 1ny season of joy and thanksgiving. It was the fir t time since my childhood that I had experienced any real happiness. I hoard of the old doctor's threats, but they no longer had tho satne power to trouble tnc. The clarke t cloud that hung O\~er n1y life had rolled away. \Vhatcvor slavery might do to me, it could not . ·hackle n1y children. If I fell a sacrifice, n1y little ones ·wore avocl. It was \voll for n1c that n1y sin1plc heart believed all that had boon protuif'cd for their welfare. It is always Lotter to trust than to doulJt. New Perils. XX. KE\Y PBRlLS. TnE doctvr, n1oro exasperated than over, again tried to rcYengc hitn ·elf on n1y relatives. lie arrested uncle Phillip on tho charge of having aidocl n1y ilighL Ife was carried before a court, and. wore truly that he knew nothing of n1y intention to escape, and that he ha.cl not soon 1110 ·inco I loft 1ny n1a tor's plantation. Tho doctor then d n1andod that he ~houlcl giYo hail for five hundred uollur:::> that he wonltl have nothing to do with n1o. Several gcntlo1non ofTorccl to be security for hitn; but }fr. Sa1Hl · told h i1n he had. better go back Lo jail, and he ·woulu soc that he came out 'vi thou t gi \·ing bail. The news of his arrest was carried to n1y grandn1other, ·who conveyed it to Betty. In tho kindno.·s of her heart, she again sto\vod 1no away under the floor; and as she \valkcd Lack and forth, in tho pcrformaneo of her culinary dntio , he talked apparently to herself, but \vith the intention that I should hear what was going on. I hoped that 1ny uncle's in1prisonn1ent would last bn t fc·w days ; still I ·was anxious. I thought it likely Dr. Flint \vould do his utmo ·t to taunt and insu1t hi1n, and I was afraid n1y uncle n1jght lose COntrol of hitnsolf, U.llU retort in S0111C \Yay that would be constru ec.l i11 to a puni~haLlo offence ; and I was well aware that in court hi~ word " 'ould not be taken ng:ain~t 8ny \rhitc 1nan's. The search for 1ne |