I thought that you, habing suffered so much yourself, might be inclined to devote yourself to freeing oders from de horrors of slabery.' "'Sam is ready, ma'am,' me says, 'It may be dat de Lord neber intends me see my Sally again, but if I can be de means ob helping to get oder men to join deir wives I shall be content.' "'Very well,' she said.

'Come into my house now and we will talk about it.' "Den she 'splained the whole business to me.

Dere were, principally in lonely places, in swamps and woods, but sometimes libing in villages and towns in de south, people who had devoted deir libes to de carrying out of de purposes ob de underground railway.

For de most part dese led libes differing no way from deir neighbors; dey tilled de land, or kept stores like oders, and none of dose around dem suspected in de slightest degree deir mission in de south.

To deir houses at night fugitive slabes would come, guided by dose from de next post.