"Remember how much
depends upon your caution and fidelity. God forgive me, if I have done
wrong in giving it to you."
"You may depend upon me. I will take good care of the document. But
shan't I say anything to the lady about it?"
"Assure her, if you can without exposing yourself, that the will is
safe. It will give joy to her heart to know that she has the means of
restoration to her home and name."
"I will see everything done about right; and I hope soon to meet you in
the land of liberty."
"I shall never leave my mistress. I have been near her from her birth,
and, though only a slave, I feel that I was sent into the world for no
other purpose than to protect and serve her. Liberty away from her has
no charms for me."
"Goodness!" ejaculated Uncle Nathan; "I never should have thought it!"
Hatchie's devotion to his mistress, so eloquently expressed, jostled
rather rudely the Northerner's prejudices concerning the treatment of
slaves.
The conversation was here interrupted by three taps on the deck above
them, produced by the brogan of Pat Fegan.
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