There is a possible chance of success, I admit, and for that reason I permit you to go ahead with it, and pledge myself to keep the secret.

I was rather intimately associated with Beaucaire for a number of years, and to see his granddaughter sold into slavery, even if she does have a drop of nigger blood in her veins, is more than I can stand, without giving her a chance to get away.

That is why I consent to abet a crime, and keep still about it.

But beyond that I'll not go.

I am a southerner, Knox; my father owned slaves.