Taking a road to the right, the slave saw before him a farmhouse, and so near was he to it that he observed two men in front of it looking at him.

It was too late to turn back.
The kidnappers were behind him--strange men before him.

Those in the rear he knew to be enemies, while he had no idea of what principles were the farmers.

The latter also saw the white men coming, and called to the fugitive to come that way.

The broad-brimmed hats that the farmers wore told the slave that they were Quakers.
Jerome had seen some of these people passing up and down the river, when employed on a steamer between Natchez and New Orleans, and had heard that they disliked slavery.