We then separated, going in different directions, I myself being accompanied by my negro servant, to whose fidelity I owed our escape.

Two days afterward an anonymous writer communicated to the police the fact that I had escaped in the disguise of a minister, and was accompanied by my black servant.

This fact was only known to the negro, myself, and the two officers.

My negro, who had released me, was certainly not my betrayer; the other officer could certainly have had no possible motive for betraying me.

There remains, therefore, only your son, whose hostility to me was notorious, and who had expressed himself with bitterness against me on many occasions, and among others in the hearing of my friend Mr.Furniss here.