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"Are you sure you are right?" "Certain." "Why?" "This is exactly the position of the stone we have to lift away that old Dougherty describes in his plan." Young Jack said no more, but lent his aid, and together they shifted the stone from its place. Then daylight peeped into their dark hiding-place. There was something leaning against the opening.
This is primarily because we have so little accurate knowledge of country life. Here in Dougherty County one may find families of eight and ten occupying one or two rooms, and for every ten rooms of house accommodation for the Negroes there are twenty-five persons. The worst tenement abominations of New York do not have above twenty-two persons for every ten rooms.
"You get your sleepins, an' no one cares whether you get your eatin's or not. What's your name?" "Dougherty Mike Dougherty, Clark street, south of Van Buren!" "I guess you must be French," Jimmie grinned. "You've guessed it. Now, what's your name, and what are you boys doin' here with this old sky-ship?" "I'll tell you all about it when we get back to the hotel," Jimmie replied.
Deserted Village was writ large on this entrance to Cagayan, but the town itself looked prosperous; the little shops were flourishing; and the natives, with ill-concealed interest, peered out furtively from under their jalousie blinds as the great swinging Dougherty wagon, with its four strapping mules, tore down the broad streets, taking us to or from the ship.
But the window-panes were gone, the pillars were worm-eaten, and the moss-grown roof was falling in. Half curiously I peered through the unhinged door, and saw where, on the wall across the hall, was written in once gay letters a faded "Welcome." Quite a contrast to the southwestern part of Dougherty County is the northwest.
"Do you know, sir, at that very moment you could hear through the partition William Jones and Bella Dougherty laughing next door! It seemed like mockery to me, a-setting there in chains, so to speak. "'He is next door, ma'am, I said, 'a-courting the hired girl. "'I will prove if thee is telling the truth, she said, and she got up and moved toward the door.
Pushing their way into the center of the little crowd, Ned and Collins found Leroy and Mike Dougherty engaged in a heated debate with a police officer who was threatening arrest. Ned stepped back so as not to attract the attention of the boys, and kept his eyes fixed on Collins. In a moment he saw that gentleman give an impatient gesture which seemed to urge the officer on.
After him he pressed, and up the long, narrow tunnel made by old Dougherty they passed. Sometimes on all fours; sometimes standing nearly upright. "A few steps more, and we are there," said Harry. "Hah!" "What now?" "Listen!" "I can hear voices," said Harry, in a whisper. "This is the stone which is all we have to displace to get back to the cell." "Then the voices are there?" "Yes."
In 1860, Dougherty County had six thousand slaves, worth at least two and a half millions of dollars; its farms were estimated at three millions, making five and a half millions of property, the value of which depended largely on the slave system, and on the speculative demand for land once marvellously rich but already partially devitalized by careless and exhaustive culture.
Immigrants are heirs of the slave baron in Dougherty; and as we ride westward, by wide stretching cornfields and stubby orchards of peach and pear, we see on all sides within the circle of dark forest a Land of Canaan.
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