He was the son of a favorite slave of Col.Lloyd.Some slaveholders would have been glad to promote the marriage of two such persons; but, for some reason or other, my old master took it upon him to break up the growing intimacy between Esther and Edward.

He strictly ordered her to quit the company of said Roberts, telling her that he would punish her severely if he ever found her again in Edward's company.

This unnatural and heartless order was, of course, broken.

A woman's love is not to be annihilated by the peremptory command of any one, whose breath is in his nostrils.

It was impossible to keep Edward and Esther apart.