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Mrs Pemberton proposed writing what was necessary, and, the paper being rolled up tightly and covered with black stuff, to conceal it among his thick crop of woolly hair. "Were he caught, the rebels might search him thoroughly and not discover it in the way that I will manage," she said. Quashie was perfectly content with the proposal, and was evidently proud of the confidence placed in him.
"Look here, massa, you no see it now, or neber anybody else till moder get it." "Well, then, away you go, my boy, and a dollar shall be yours when you come back," said Mr Pemberton. "Ki! dat's good," exclaimed Quashie, eager to be off.
Quashie, having had a good supper, declared that he should be ready to set out that night if required; but as it was hoped that during the next day a plan might be organised more effectually to help their friends than could be then done, it was agreed that it would be better to wait till the following evening.
The sharpest of eyes only could have detected Quashie as he crept along under the hedges: he felt confident there was very little risk of his being discovered. Few of his age could outstrip Quashie, and making good use of his legs, he got over the ground in a third of the time Jack Pemberton had taken to accomplish the distance.
We rode up in front of the door, close to the fixed manger, where the horses and mules belonging to the busha are usually fed, and encountered a negro servant on a mule, with an umbrella case slung across his back, and a portmanteau behind him, covered with the usual sheep's fleece, and holding a saddle horse. "Where is your master?" said Mr Bang. "De dactor is in de hose," replied quashie.
"Both fathers and mothers are very fond of their children in their way; and I will answer for it that Quashie will manage to carry any message we may send, and bring back an answer safely." Quashie being called, he without hesitation undertook to do what was required of him.
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