Yes, berry like;" and in his own way Sam confessed what he had seen more than a year ago, and told, too, how Hugh had overheard the words of love breathed by Irving Stanley, imitating, as far as possible, his master's manner as he turned away, and walked hurriedly down the piazza.
Then he confessed what, in the evening, he had repeated to Hugh, telling Alice how "poor massah groan, wid face in his hands, and how next day he went off, never to come back again." In mute silence, Alice listened to a story which explained much that had been strange to her before, and as she listened, her resolve was made.
"Sam," she said, when he had finished, "I wish I had known this before.
It might have saved your master much anxiety.

I am going North--going to Snowdon first, and then to Washington, in hopes of finding him." In a moment Sam was on his knees, begging to go with her.
"Don't leave me, Miss Ellis.

Take me 'long.

Please take me to Massah Hugh.

I'se quite peart now, and kin look after Miss Ellis a heap." Alice could not promise till she had talked with Mrs.Worthington, whose anxiety to go North was even greater than her own.