Dey all say dat no one been dere for a month.

Me sure dat dey no tell a lie about it, because dey all hate Massa Jackson like pison.

Den de lawyer, he am put de advertisement you told him in the papers: Five hundred dollars to whoever would give information about de carrying off of a female slave from Missy Wingfield, or dat would lead to de discovery of her hiding-place.

But no answer come.

Me heard Missy Wingfield say so last night." "That's bad, Dan; but I hardly expected anything better.