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With Lee in Virginia

CHAPTER X
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You say you want bedroom for yo'self, and that your sarvant can sleep in de hall.

Den in de morning you get up and breakfast and go off by de fust train." "But then they may send down to look at the passengers starting, and I should be taken at once." "De train go out at seven o'clock, sah.

I don't expect they find that you have got away before dat." "No, Dan.

We all turn out at seven, and I shall be missed then; but it will be some little time before the alarm is given, and they find out how we got away, and send out search-parties.

If the train is anything like punctual we shall be off long before they get to the station." "Besides, sah, dar are not many people knows your face, and it not likely de bery man dat know you come to the station.


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