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With Lee in Virginia

CHAPTER XVI
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Pearson he go into de plot, because, in de fust place, it vex Missy Wingfield and you bery much; in de second place, because Jackson gib him money; in de third place, he get hold of negro slave worf a thousand dollar.

Dat all quite clear.

He not do it himself, but arrange wid oder fellows, and he stop quiet at de hotel for two days after she gone so dat no one can 'spect his having hand in de affair." "That is just how I make it out, Dan; and now he has gone off to join them." Dan thought for some time.
"Perhaps dey join him thar, sah, perhaps not; perhaps him send him baggage on there and get out somewhere on de road and meet dem." "That is likely enough, Dan.

No doubt Dinah was taken away in a cart or buggy.

As she left two days before he did, they may have gone from forty to sixty miles along the road, or to some place where he may have joined them.


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