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George's chair was often placed at her state-room door; and Cassy, as she sat upon the guards, could hear their conversation. Madame de Thoux was very minute in her inquiries as to Kentucky, where she said she had resided in a former period of her life.
George discovered, to his surprise, that her former residence must have been in his own vicinity; and her inquiries showed a knowledge of people and things in his vicinity, that was perfectly surprising to him. "Do you know," said Madame de Thoux to him, one day, "of any man, in your neighborhood, of the name of Harris?"
The worthy pastor of the station, in Amherstberg, where George had first landed, was so much interested in the statements of Madame de Thoux and Cassy, that he yielded to the solicitations of the former, to accompany them to Montreal, in their search, she bearing all the expense of the expedition. The scene now changes to a small, neat tenement, in the outskirts of Montreal; the time, evening.
George was wide awake now, and so was Madame de Thoux.
Eliza's steady, consistent piety, regulated by the constant reading of the sacred word, made her a proper guide for the shattered and wearied mind of her mother. Cassy yielded at once, and with her whole soul, to every good influence, and became a devout and tender Christian. After a day or two, Madame de Thoux told her brother more particularly of her affairs.
"I was bought by a good and generous man. He took me with him to the West Indies, set me free, and married me. It is but lately that he died; and I was going up to Kentucky, to see if I could find and redeem my brother." "I heard him speak of a sister Emily, that was sold South," said George. "Yes, indeed! I am the one," said Madame de Thoux; "tell me what sort of a "
"There is an old fellow, of that name, lives not far from my father's place," said George. "We never have had much intercourse with him, though." "He is a large slave-owner, I believe," said Madame de Thoux, with a manner which seemed to betray more interest than she was exactly willing to show. "He is," said George, looking rather surprised at her manner.
The next state-room to Cassy's was occupied by a French lady, named De Thoux, who was accompanied by a fine little daughter, a child of some twelve summers.
"He is my brother," she said. "Madame!" said George, with a strong accent of surprise. "Yes," said Madame de Thoux, lifting her head, proudly, and wiping her tears, "Mr. Shelby, George Harris is my brother!" "I am perfectly astonished," said George, pushing back his chair a pace or two, and looking at Madame de Thoux. "I was sold to the South when he was a boy," said she.
Madame de Thoux and she, thus drawn together by the singular coincidence of their fortunes, proceeded immediately to Canada, and began a tour of inquiry among the stations, where the numerous fugitives from slavery are located.
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