They hated him." "Have you any idea where he went when he left here ?" "No, sir; he did not come back after he got his dismissal.

He sent a man in a buggy with a note to me, asking me to send all his things over to Richmond.

I expect he was afraid the news might get here as soon as he did, and that the hands would give him an unpleasant reception, as indeed I expect they would have done." "You don't know whether he has any friends anywhere in the Confederacy to whom he would be likely to go ?" "I don't know about friends, sir; but I know he has told me he was overseer, or partner, or something of that sort, in a small station down in the swamps of South Carolina.

I should think, from things he has let drop, that the slaves must have had a bad time of it.

I rather fancy he made the place too hot for him, and had to leave; but that was only my impression." "In that case he may possibly have made his way back there," Vincent said.