"What treachery has he been guilty of?
I saw that he was one of those who escaped with you, and I rather wondered at the time at you two being mixed up together in anything.

I heard that he had been recaptured through some black fellow that had been his slave, but I did not read the account.

Have you got proof of what you say ?" "Perhaps no proof that would hold in a court of law," Vincent replied, "but proof enough to make it an absolute certainty to my mind." Vincent then gave an account of their escape, and of the anonymous denunciation of himself and Dan.
"Now," he said, "no one but Dan knew of the intended escape, no one knew what clothes he had purchased, no one could possibly have known that I was to be disguised as a preacher and Dan as my servant.

Therefore the information must have been given by Jackson." "I have not the least doubt but that the blackguard did give it, Wingfield; but there is no proof." "I consider that there is a proof--an absolute and positive proof," Vincent asserted, "because no one else could have known it." "Well, you see that, as a matter of fact, the other officer did know it, and might possibly have given the information." "But why should he?
The idea is absurd.

He had never had a quarrel with me, and he owed his liberty to me." "Just so, Wingfield.