He's always ready to gamble in anything." "After all, I have my suspicion that he's got a clew to the mystery somehow, and that he expects to find those handsome wenches," said Mr.
Bruteman.

"I'd give a good deal to baffle him." "It seems pretty certain that _we_ cannot obtain any clew," rejoined Mr.Ammidon, "and we have already expended considerable in the effort.
If he can be induced to offer two thousand five hundred, I think we had better accept it." After a week's absence in Savannah and its vicinity, making various arrangements for the reception of the sisters, Mr.Fitzgerald returned to New Orleans, and took an early opportunity to inform the creditors that he should remain a very short time.

He made no allusion to his proposed bargain, and when they alluded to it he affected great indifference.
"I should be willing to give you five hundred dollars to release my musical friend," said he.

"But as for those daughters of Mr.Royal, it seems to me, upon reflection, to be rather a quixotic undertaking to go in pursuit of them.

You know it's a difficult job to catch a slave after he gets to the North, if he's as black as the ace of spades; and all Yankeedom would be up in arms at any attempt to seize such white ladies.