The old man commenced and went through with the same remarks addressed to the Lord, when Mark again knocked at the door.

"Who dat dar ?" asked Uncle Tony, with a somewhat agitated countenance and trembling voice.

Still Mark would not reply.

Again Tony took up the thread of his discourse, and said, "O Lord, thou knowest as well as I do that dese white folks are not prepared to die, but here is Old Tony, when de angel of de Lord comes, he's ready to go to heaven." Mark once more knocked at the door.

"Who dat dar ?" thundered Tony at the top of his voice.
"De angel of de Lord," replied Mark, in a somewhat suppressed and sepulchral voice.
"What de angel of de Lord want here ?" inquired Tony, as if much frightened.
"He's come for poor old Tony, to take him out of the world" replied Mark, in the same strange voice.
"Dat nigger ain't here; he die tree weeks ago," responded Tony, in a still more agitated and frightened tone.