Harry and Kate were favorites with everybody—white and black.
"I tell ye what I'm goin' to do," said Tony Kirk; "I'm goin' after that feller."
At this, half a dozen men offered to go along with Tony.
"What will you do, if you find him?" asked Mr. Loudon.
"That depends on circumstances," replied Tony.
"I am willing to have you go," said Mr. Loudon, who was a magistrate and a gentleman of much influence in the village, "on condition that if you find him you offer him no violence. Tell him to leave the county, and say to him, from me, that if he is found here again he shall be arrested."
"All right," said Tony; and he proceeded to make up his party.
There were plenty of volunteers; and for a while it was thought that Uncle Braddock intended to offer to go. But, if so, he must have changed his mind, for he soon left the village and went over to Aunt Matilda's and had a good talk with her. The old woman was furiously angry when she heard of the affair.
"I wish I'd been a little quicker," she said, "and dere wouldn't a been a red spot on him."
Uncle Braddock didn't know exactly what she meant; but he wished so, too.