Yet in time her two guardians, Carlisle and Kammerer, unwisely allowed her more and more liberty.

She was even, in times of great hurry, furnished funds to go upon trips of investigation for herself, as one best fitted to judge of the conditions of her people.

As to these details, Josephine St.Auban knew little.

There was enough to occupy her mind at the center of these affairs, where labors grew rapidly and quite beyond her original plan.
As is always the case in such hopeless enterprises, the expenses multiplied beyond belief.

True, contributions came meagerly from the North, here and there some abolitionist appearing who would do something besides write and preach.