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The sisters began to entertain a similar fear; and it was decided that their husbands should call with them the following morning, to have a talk with Mr. and Mrs. Robbem. But not long after breakfast, Tulee stole into the back door with the cherub in her arms. "O Missy Flory," said she, "I tried to get here last night. But Missis Robbem takes a heap o' care o' me."
The jailer's wife didn't seem so hard-hearted as the rest. I showed her the mark on the picaninny's arm, and gave her one of the little shirts ye embroidered; and I told her if they sold me away from him, a white lady would send for him. They did sell me, Missy Rosy. Mr. Robbem, a Caroliny slave-trader bought me, and he's my massa now. I don't know what they did with the picaninny.
As soon as they were seated he said: "I came to inform you that Tulee does not wish to go back to Carolina; and that by the laws of Massachusetts she has a perfect right to remain here." "She's an ungrateful wench!" exclaimed Mrs. Robbem.
"What, does this Mr. Robbem carry on the Deacon's old business?" inquired Mr. Bright. "Yes, Massa," replied Tulee. "Two years ago, Massa Stillham come down to Caroliny to spend the winter, and he was round in the slave-pen as brisk as Massa Robbem, counting the niggers, and telling how many dollars they ought to sell for. He had a dreadful bad fever while he was down there, and I nursed him.
They lived together many years, and are strongly attached to each other." "If your wife is a Southern lady," replied Mrs. Robbem, "she ought to be above such a mean Yankee trick as stealing my servant from me." Her husband entered at that moment, and the visitor rose and bowed as he said, "Mr. Robbem, I presume."
But, out of gratitude for services she has rendered my wife, I am willing to make you gratuitous compensation, provided you will enable me to buy all her children. Will you name your terms now, or shall I call again?". "She shall never have her children," repeated Mr. Robbem; "she has nobody but herself and the Abolitionists to blame for it."
But I does want to be free, and I does want to live with ye, Missy Rosy and Missy Flory." Mrs. Robbem met Mr. King as soon as he entered her father's door, and said in a tone of stern surprise, "Where is my servant, sir?" He bowed and answered, "If you will allow me to walk in for a few moments, I will explain my errand."
While this by-play was going on, a white servant came through the Deacon's grounds, and said to Tulee, "Mrs. Robbem wants you to come to her immediately, and bring Laura." "I must go now, darling," said Tulee, clasping Flora's hand with a warm pressure. "Come again quickly," said Flora. "As soon as I can," she replied, and hurried away with her little charge. When Mr.
He lowered his head somewhat stiffly in reply; and his wife hastened to say, "The Abolitionists have been decoying Tulee away from us." Mr. King repeated the explanation he had already made. "I thought the wench had more feeling," replied Mr. Robbem. "She left children in Carolina. But the fact is, niggers have no more feeling for their young than so many pigs."
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