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Updated: June 21, 2025
I wanted to move him so I put him in a pillow slip so's he couldn't see where we wus takin' him so he couldn't fin' the way back. He stayed 'round his new home for a few days an' then he went back to his ole home. Mr. Duvall went and got him again for me. Not many white men would do that for a little nigger boy. He musta told Tom somethin' for he never run off no more. Mr.
He would alter his personal appearance, change his name he thought of Duvall, which was his mother's name and with Walling's aid he would get out of the country and into some other country where a man might live like a prince on four millions or the fractional part of it.
Duvall glanced up and down the street, but no sight of the vanished woman greeted his anxious gaze. She had had ample time to reach the next corner, and disappear in the darkness. Thoughts of pursuit entered his mind, but he realized at once the fruitlessness of such an attempt. His captive might have fled east or west, at either of the streets north or south of where he stood.
Duvall grasped her by the arm. "It will be quite useless to attempt it, Miss Norman," he said. "I have help close at hand in case it is needed." He glanced toward Grace and Leary, who were now approaching. "I do not wish to use any violence, of course, but you and your friend are going back to the apartment on Ninety-sixth Street with me."
We must get every scrap of that card at once." It took the two of them several minutes to gather from the basket the tiny pieces into which Grace had torn the bit of paper. Then they fitted them together. Duvall saw at once, as soon as he picked up the first scrap, that the address had been written on a card.
It was not entirely what he had expected. "I have explained everything to the doctor," remarked Duvall hastily. "He understands about the money you requested." He looked significantly at Dr. Hartmann. "Then I hope the matter can be settled at once," said Seltz, apparently much relieved. He made no movement to sit down, but continued to look expectantly at Dr. Hartmann.
Without any clear idea of what he intended to do, Duvall went to the door and tried it. To his surprise, he found it unlocked, and in a moment he had passed out into the hall. The house seemed deserted. Even the attendant who had sat at the head of the stairs the night before was no longer in evidence. He went down to the lower floor without seeing any one.
"I feel almost as though I had lost an old friend." The doctor smiled. "Rather a dangerous one, I should say," he remarked, as he glanced at the revolver on the table. "You will want this, I suppose." Duvall took the revolver and thrust it into his pocket. "Might as well take it along, I suppose, doctor. Now about my bill do I owe you anything in addition to the fee I paid you on my arrival?"
"Oh, my friend, my benefactress!" cried Fanny "how can I help feeling so distressed, when I know that your happiness is about to be destroyed forever?" "My happiness destroyed!" cried Alice, surprised and alarmed "what mean you! Do you allude to my marriage to-morrow with the Chevalier Duvall? Yes, I see you do.
"Doctor," she cried out, "what are you doing?" "It seems that Dr. Hartmann has suddenly lost his senses, Miss Ellicott," exclaimed Duvall angrily. "Quite so, my friend," said the doctor, sarcastically. "Just as our poor friend Seltz lost his. Don't try anything like that," he snarled, suddenly, as Duvall attempted to release his arm with a sudden twist.
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