Jest as I came here de city police took me up and put me in jail." "Excuse me," interrupted the auctioneer, "but I must sell this girl at once.

Time is precious, so you must excuse me;" then turning to the crowd he continued: "Here is the slave, gentlemen.

She is an intelligent looking negro, says she understands all that appertains to the duties of a house servant.

What will you bid for her ?" "Seven hundred dollars," exclaimed a voice in the crowd.
"Thank you, sir; seven hundred dollars; going at seven hundred dollars.

Look at the girl, gentlemen, going at seven hundred dollars.
Can I get another bid ?" exclaimed the auctioneer in the rapid voice peculiar to his class.
"Seven hundred and twenty-five," was the next bid.
"Seven hundred and fifty," Dr.Humphries cried out, having made up his mind to purchase her.
In a few minutes the slave was "knocked down" to the doctor for eleven hundred dollars, and after the proper form was gone through and the money paid, he ordered her to follow him, and retraced his steps homeward.
As our readers must have recognized already, Elsy was no other than the slave who was left at New Orleans by Mrs.Wentworth, and who declared that she would follow her mistress into the Confederate lines.