Lane declared that in less than five minutes after I run out of the stable in Louisville, he had over twenty men running and looking in every direction after me; but all without success.

They could hear nothing of me.

They had turned over several tons of hay in a large loft, in search, and I was not to be found there.

Dan imputed my escape to my godliness! He said that I must have gone up in a chariot of fire, for I went off by flying; and that he should never again have any thing to do with a praying negro.
Great excitement prevailed in Bedford, and many were out watching for me at the time Malinda was relating to me these facts.

The excitement was then so great among the slaveholders--who were anxious to have me re-captured as a means of discouraging other slaves from running away--that time and money were no object while there was the least prospect of their success.