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along-with an air of dutiful submission,only S?"m and Andy,instinctively cried out
groaning and vociferating occasionally that 'twas
up their hands, as she did it.
'"
desp'trough, and bad for Jerry's foot."
The huge green fragmentof ice on v; hich she
"Now, I jestgive yer warning,"said Haley, alightedpitchedand creaked as her weightcame
"
rueful submission,at the same time winking most
portentously to Andy, whose delightwas now
very near the explosive point.
Sam was in wonderful "
spirits, professed to
keep a very brisk look-out, at one time exclaiming
that lie
" saw a gal'sbonnet" on the top of
some distant eminence,or calling to Andy " if
that thar wasn't
'
Lizy,' down in the hollow;"
alwaysmaking these exclamations in some rough
or craggy part of the road,where the sudden
" "
"
"
quickening speed was a special inconvenience
me save me "
"
0, Mr. Symmes !
to all partiesconcerned,and thus keepingHaley do hide me !" said Eliza.
in a state of constant commotion.
"
Why, what 's this ?" said the man. "
Why,
After ridingabout an hour in this way, the if 'tan't Shelby'sgal!"
whole party made a precipitate and tumultuous "My child! boy!" he'd sold him!
descent into a barn-yardbelongingto a largeThere is his Mas'r," said she, pointingto the
farming establishment. Not a soul was in sight, Kentucky shore.
"
0, Mr. Symmes,you 've got
all the hands beingemployed in the fields ; but, a littleboy!"
as the barn stood conspicuously "
plainly So I have," said the man, as he roughly, but
square across the road, it was evident that their kindly, drew her up the steep bank. "
Besides,
journeyin that direction had reached a decided you 're a rightbrave gal. I like grit,wherever I
finale.
see it."
"
Wan't dat ar what I telled Mas'r?" said When they had gained the top cf the bank,
Sam, with an air of injuredinnocence.
"
How the man paused.
does strangegentlemanspectto know more about "I'd be glad to do something for ye," said
"
a countrydan de natives born and raised ?" he ; but then there 's nowhar I could take ye.
"You rascal!" said Haley,"you knew all The best I can do is to tell ye to go thar,"said
about this."
he, pointing to a largewhite house which stood
" Didn't I tell yer
I know^d,and yer wouldn't by itself,offthe main street of the village. " Go
believe me ? I telled Mas'r 'twas all shet up, thar; they'rekind folks. Thar 's no kind o
and fenced up, and I did n't spect we could get danger but they "11 helpyou,
up to all
through, Andy heard me."
that sort o' thing."
Eliza,earnestly.
It was too true to be disputed, the unlucky
"
The Lord bless you !" said
man had to pockethis wrath with the best grace
"No 'casion,no 'casion in the world," said
"
he was able ; and all three faced to the rightthe man. What I 've dono s of no 'count."
about, and took up their line of march for the "And, 0, surely,sir, you won't tell any
highway.
In consequence
about
of all the various delays, it was
three-quarters of an hour after Eliza had
laid her child to sleep in the village tavern that
mid lifted
"
I know yer ; yer won't get me to turn off this on it,but she staid there not a moment. With
yer road,with all yer fussin' you shet up !"
"
Mas'r will go his own way !" said Sam, with another and still another cake;
wild cries and desperate energy she leapedto
"
stumbling
" "
leaping slipping springingupwards again!
"
"
Her shoes are gone
feet
stockingscut from her
blood marked every step; but she
saw nothing,felt nothing,till dimly,as in a
dream,she saw the Ohio side,and a man lulping
her up the bank.
"
Yer a brave gal,now, whoever ar
ye !'ssaid
the man, with an oath.
Eliza
recognized the voice and face of a man
who owned a farm not far from her old home.
one !"
"
Go to thunder,gal ! What do you take a feller
for? In course not," said the man. "Come,
now, go along like a likelyșensible gal,as you
the party came riding into the same place. Eliza are. You 've arnt your liberty,and you shall
was standingby the window, lookingout in another
have it,for all me."
direction,when Sam's quick eye caught a The woman folded her child to her bosom,and
of her. Haley and Andy
flimpse
were two yardswalked firmly and swiftlyaway.
The man stood
ehind. At this crisisȘam contrived to have and looked after her.
his hat blown off,and uttered a loud and characteristic
"
Shelby,now, mebbe won't think this yer the
ejaculation, which startled her at once ; most neighborly thing in the world ; but what 's
she drew suddenly back ; the whole train swept a feller to do 1 If he catches one of my galsin
by the window,round to the front door.
the same fix,he 's welcome to pay back. Somehow
A thousand lives seemed to be concentrated in I never could see no kind o' critter a strivin'
that one moment to Eliza. Her room openedby and pantin', and trying to clar theirselves, with
a side door to the river. She caught her child,
the dogs arter 'em, and go agin 'em. Besides,I
and sprang down the stepstowards it. The trader
doa't see no kind of 'casion for me to be hunter
caught a full glimpseof her,justas she was aid catcher for other folks,neither."
disappearing down the bank ; and throwing himself
So spoke this poor, heathenish Kentuckian,
from his horse,and calling loudlyon Sam and who had not been instructed in his constitutional
Andy, he -was after her like a hound after a deer. relations,and consequentlywas betrayedinto
In that dizzy moment her feet to her scarce actingin a sort of Christianized manner, which,
seemed to touch the ground, and a moment
ened,
brought her to the water's edge. Righton behind
he would not have been left to do.
they came ; and, nerved with strength such Haley had stood a perfectly amazed spectator
as God givesonly to the desperate, with one wild of the scene, till Eliza had disappeared up the
cry and flyingleap,she vaulted sheer over the bank, when he turned a blank,inquiring on
turbid cm-rent by the shore on to the raft of ice Sain and Andy.
beyond. It was a
,
desperateleap" impossible "That ar was a tolable fair stroke cf business,"
anythingbut madness and iespair ; and Haley, said Sam.
if he had been better situated and more enlight-