"Well, as I told you once before, we shall see.

I hope I am wrong, and that Pearson is all that you believe him to be.

I own that I may be prejudiced against him, but nothing will persuade me that it was not from him that Jackson learned that Dinah was here, and it was to that we owe the visit of the sheriff and the searching the plantation for Tony.

However, whatever the man is at heart, he can, as far as I see, do you no injury as long as things go on as they are, and I sincerely trust he will never have an opportunity of doing so." During the winter Vincent had made the acquaintance of many of the Southern leaders.

The town was the center of the movement, the heart of the Confederacy.