My object, therefore, in working steadily, was to remove suspicion, and in this I succeeded admirably.

He probably thought I was never better satisfied with my condition, than at the very time I was planning my escape.

The second week passed, and again I carried him my full week's wages--_nine dollars;_ and so well pleased was he, that he gave me TWENTY-FIVE CENTS! and "bade me make good use of it!" I told him I would, for one of the uses to which I meant to put it, was to pay my fare on the underground railroad.
Things without went on as usual; but I was passing through the same internal excitement and anxiety which I had experienced two years and a half before.

The failure, in that instance, was not calculated to increase my confidence in the success of this, my second attempt; and I knew that a second failure could not leave me where my first did--I must either get to the _far north_, or be sent to the _far south_.

Besides the exercise of mind from this state of facts, I had the painful sensation of being about to separate from a circle of honest and warm hearted friends, in Baltimore.