Charles Roberts and Henry Baily are safe at their homes.

I have not, therefore, any thing to regret on their account.

Their masters have mercifully forgiven them, probably on the ground suggested in the spirited little speech of Mrs.Freeland, made to me just before leaving for the jail--namely: that they had been allured into the wicked scheme of making their escape, by me; and that, but for me, they would never have dreamed of a thing so shocking! My{236} friends had nothing to regret, either; for while they were watched more closely on account of what had happened, they were, doubtless, treated more kindly than before, and got new assurances that they would be legally emancipated, some day, provided their behavior should make them deserving, from that time forward.

Not a blow, as I learned, was struck any one of them.

As for Master William Freeland, good, unsuspecting soul, he did not believe that we were intending to run away at all.