Understand ?" But the negro girl, ashen with terror, seemed incapable of flight.
"I skeered to go, Miss Hallie," she whimpered.

"I wan' stay here wid you! Ou-ou!" "But you can't, I tell you," her mistress answered, as the certainty of the girl's helplessness before a questioner flashed through her mind.
"You'd tell everything." "Oh, come on, you big baby," Virgie urged, pulling at Sally Arm's sleeve.

"_I'll_ take care of you." Then her eye fell on Susan Jemima lying neglected on the bench and she gave a faint scream at her heartlessness.

"Goodness gracious, Mother," she cried, as, still holding on to Sally Ann, she ran and caught up her beloved doll.

"I nearly forgot my child!" With the clank of sabers and the sound of gruff commands already in her ears, Mrs.Cary turned peremptorily to Uncle Billy.
"Remember, William! If the Yankees ask for my husband _you haven't seen him!_" "Nor'm, dat's right," was the prompt answer.