She will be here in a few days. After the marriage, it will
only remain for me to make over to you one-third of the property, which,
as her husband, I can then legally do. Be firm, and behave like a man,
and your troubles are ended. Everything will be hushed up, and you can
spend the evening of your days in peace and quiet. I bid you good-day."
The attorney formally and politely ushered himself out of the library,
and took his departure for New Orleans.
CHAPTER XXVII.
"Jaffier, you're free; but these must wait for judgment."
OTWAY.
We left Dalhousie engaged in the seemingly hopeless task of undermining
the wall of the slave jail, at which he labored for several hours,
resting at intervals, as his exhausted frame demanded. The prospect of
realizing his hope encouraged him, and lent an artificial strength to
his arm. He had already excavated a pit several feet in depth, but had
not reached the bottom of the foundation wall. The quantity of earth
piled upon the brink of the pit required extra exertion to remove it,
but he toiled on with the energy of despair.
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