16/42 What was de name of dat man, sah, you was speaking of ?" "His name was Jackson," the doctor answered. "Massa never mentioned de names ob de two officers who got out wid him, and it war too dark for me to see their faces, but dat story made me tink it must be him. Bery bad man dat; he libs close to us, and Massa Vincent one day pretty nigh kill him because he beat dat bery man who has catched him now on de street ob Washington. When dat man sell him wife Massa Vincent buy her so as to prevent her falling into bad hands. She safe now wid his mother at de Orangery--dat's the name of her plantation." "My patient must be quite an interesting fellow, young lady," the doctor said, with a rather slight twinkle of his eye. |