CHAPTER XVI.
DEATH IS FREEDOM.
On receiving intelligence of the arrest of Isabella, Mr.Gordon authorized the sheriff to sell her to the highest bidder.

She was, therefore, sold; the purchaser being the noted negro-trader, Hope H.
Slater, who at once placed her in prison.

Here the fugitive saw none but slaves like herself, brought in and taken out to be placed in ships, and sent away to some part of the country to which she herself would soon be compelled to go.

She had seen or heard nothing of her daughter while in Richmond, and all hopes of seeing her had now fled.
At the dusk of the evening previous to the day when she was to be sent off, as the old prison was being closed for the night, Isabella suddenly darted past the keeper, and ran for her life.

It was not a great distance from the prison to the long bridge which passes from the lower part of the city across the Potomac to the extensive forests and woodlands of the celebrated Arlington Heights, then occupied by that distinguished relative and descendant of the immortal Washington, Mr.
Geo.