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Show 234 Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. storeroom ; so they brought hin1 there, and locked us up together, in a place concealed fro1n tho piazza door. It was an agitating interview for both of n . After we had talked and ·wept together for a little while, he aid ":Thfothcr, I'ln glad you're going a-way. I ·wish I coulu' go with you. I knew you ·was hero ; and I have been so afraid they ·would con1o and catch you ! '' I ·was greatly surprised, and asked him ho"\v he had found it out. lie r eplied, " I was standing under the caves, one day, before Ellen ·went a\vay, and I heard somebody cough up over tho ·wood shed. I don't know ,vhat made 1110 think it ·was you, but I diu think so. I mis ·eel Ellen, tho night before she went a"tvay; and grand1nother brought her back into the romn in the night; ancl -I thought maybe she'd boon to soc you, beforo she 'vent, for I heard grancltnother whisper to her, 'N o\v go to lcep; and rc1nen1ber never to tell.''' I a ked hin1 if he eYer mentioned his suspicions to his sister. lie said he never dicl; but after he heanl tho cough, if he saw her playing with other children on that ide of tho house, he ahv ays tried to coax her round to tho other side, for fear they would hoar 1no cough, too. lie said he had kept a clo o lookout for Dr. :B""'lint, and if he saw hi1n speak to a constable, or a patrol, he always told grandtnother. I now r ccollccteu that I had seen him 1nanifcst uneasiness when people were on that side of the hou.· c, and I 'h ad at tho titno boon puzzled to conjecture u 1notivo for his actions. Such prudence may scon1 extraordinary in a boy of twcl YO years, but slaves, being surrounded hy mysteries, dcc01Jtiou,, and dangcn:, early lcant to he Preparations for Efcape. suspicious and watchful, and prematurely cautious and cunning. lie had n?v?r asked a q no ·tion of grandn1othcr, or uncle Phillip, and I had often hoard him chitne in ·with other children, when they spoke of n1y being at tho north. I ~~lJ hitn I was now really going to the Free ~ tatcs, and 1f he was a good, honest Loy, and a loving child to his dear olcl granchnothor, t he Lonl would blo. · hi1n and bring hin1 to me, and we and Ellen 1rould li v~ together. lie began to tell 1nc that grandn1othcr had not eaten any thing all clay. 'Vhilc he wa · 1)cakino· b' the door \vas unlockeJ, and ·ho cmnc in with a 111all bag of tnonoy, which she \\rantccl 1no to take. I begged her to keep a part of it, at least, to pay for Donny's being sent to tho north; Lut she in ·istcd, while her tear· were falling fa t, that I should take tho whole. "You n1~y be , ·ick atnong ·trangor ," ·he said, " and they \roulcl send you to the poorhon c to uio." A.h, that :n:,· ood te:: rrand tnothor I• For the last ti1nc I went up Lo 1ny nook. I t.· dc.·ola, te appearance no longer chilled nlC, for the light of hope hacl risen in 1ny soul. Y ct, CYOn, with tho blessed prospect of frO~_;<.hnn LH.;f'orc n1c, 1 felL Yery ,·acl at lcaYino · foren;r that ol <l hmnc.tcad, where I bad l1e n f'h eltorcd :o lon e>' by the dear old granthnother; where I haJ drC<LlllCU lllJ first young dt·eatn of love; and where, after t1lat had Hulcd away, n1y chi ldren can1e to twine then1:cl vcs so closely r onnel n1y d c~olate heart. 1ts tho hour approached for n1e io lcare, I again descended to the sLo reroonL l\Jy gL'au chnothcr and Bcuuy were there. ~'he took Jl)e l1y ill<~ hai1d, and ~· aid, "Lin da,, let ll.' prt~y. '' \\r c knell do\\·11 Lo~l' Llll.:r , willilllJ child |