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Updated: June 22, 2025
"Art thou all so sure of that?" quoth Ralph, "or who are these that be with us? meseems they smell of the Dry Tree." "Yea, or rebels and runaways therefrom," said Roger, with a dry grin. "But whosoever they may be, thou shalt see that they will suffer us to depart whither we will, if we like not their company. I will be thy warrant thereof."
Bobbsey, Bert and Nan were already there, and quite glad to see the two runaways, you may be sure. "What a lot of adventures you must have had!" cried Nan, when Flossie and Freddie had told her a few of the things that had happened. "We did!" laughed Freddie. "You ought to have seen that monkey's face when he bit on those make-believe cherries on Flossie's hat!" and Freddie laughed loudly.
She speaks with the first voice in the crooked trees. In the summer they were cloaked and glorious. Now, when their cloaks seem so much more necessary, they are left naked, poor creatures, their backs to the sea-wind, with the air of runaways unable to escape. The oak and the thorn-bush could scarcely writhe more if they were crippled by rheumatism.
They'll clear off your beef like cheese, and our beer is dish-water compared with their black malt brew." "All that might be borne," replied Barbara, "if they were stout soldiers. We needn't mind a hundred head of cattle more or less, and the glutton becomes temperate, when a niggard rules the house. But I wouldn't take one of our Adrian's grey rabbits for these runaways."
Nearer, and yet nearer came the light! Now it was going farther from her, now returning, and now, oh, she must hold her breath! A firm step trampled the underbrush, the lantern was swung high, and the two runaways were discovered. With a sob Flossie clasped the infant closer, hiding its face with her own. "You sha'n't have this baby!" she cried, "for I won't let you!
Thoroughly frightened, they kept starting and running without cause, and there was no chance in this narrow road to turn them. The fact that it ascended the side of the hill steeply did more toward abating the pace of the runaways than aught else.
But now up from the bridge came the thunder of horses' hoofs, cavalry, tearing at a furious gallop. Pompeius had evidently ordered out a turma of mounted men to chase down the runaways. More and more frantic the race Drusus's tongue hung from his mouth like a dog's.
The latter, pursuing the runaways, in disorderly haste, through the valley, were most of them wounded and slain, before they discovered their concealed foe.
"I did watch from the top of the high tree the De Aldithely castle," was the boastingly given answer. "I did see the young lord and his serving-man flee through the postern and enter the wood." He was about to rehearse all the particulars of his pursuit of the runaways when the innkeeper interrupted him.
'No, not more brisk than usual. We always have more or less runaways. 'Do most of them take to the swamps? 'Yes, nine out of ten do, though now and then one gets off on a trading-vessel. It is almost impossible for a strange nigger to make his way by land from here to the free States. 'Then why do you Carolinians make such an outcry about the violation of the Fugitive Slave Law?
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