"Was he alone?"
"Yassir."
"Did he say anything to, you about returning, before he left?"
"He done say'd, sah, dat he couldn't come back yar befo' to-morrow, nohow. Dat's all."
"I wonder if you are telling me the truth, nigger?"
"'Yas, sah, I is."
"Are you alone in the house now, or are there others here?"
"I's alone, sah. Dere ain't nobody here, nohow."
"Don't you know the house to which your master has gone, nigger?"
"Yassir, I does."