Since they have taken to beating and shooting whites as well as blacks, women as well as men, who shall say that we are safe?
I a Northern woman too and without a protector." "I do not think they will molest a lady of your standing," said Mr.
Dinsmore, "the widow too of a Confederate officer.

But where is Boyd, that you say you are without a protector ?" A slight shudder ran over Sophie's frame.

"Boyd ?" she said, drawing her chair nearer and speaking in an undertone, "he is my great dread, and for fear of wounding mother's feelings I have had to keep my terrors to myself.

I know that he is often out, away from the plantation, all night.

I have for weeks past suspected that he was a Ku Klux, and last night, or rather early this morning, my suspicions were so fully confirmed that they now amount almost to certainty.