They are recorded on your ledger, or perhaps have been sold to human flesh-mongers, with a view to filling our own ever-hungry purse.

Sir, I desire to know how and where these dear sisters are.

Have you sold them?
or are they still in your possession?
What has become of them?
are they living or dead?
And my dear old grandmother, whom you turned out like an old horse to die in the woods--is she still alive?
Write and let me know all about them.

If my grandmother be still alive, she is of no service to you, for by this time she must be nearly eighty years old--too old to be cared for by one to whom she has ceased to be of service; send her to me at Rochester, or bring her to Philadelphia, and it shall be the crowning happiness of my life to take care of her in her old age.

Oh! she was to me a mother and a father, so far as hard toil for my comfort could make her such.