She was running with all speed to the bridge he was approaching.

His eye was fixed upon her, and he stopped to see what was the matter.

He had not paused long before he saw three men run out after her.

He now knew what the nature of the case was; a slave escaping from her chains--a young woman, a sister--escaping from the bondage in which she had been held.

She made her way to the bridge, but had not reached, ere from the Virginia side there came two slaveholders.