"Yes, my grandfather, Mathew Stevens, who was a Spaniard by birth and called Mattheo Estevan, died in Boston twenty years ago, and I have uncles, aunts and cousins living there."
"Have you relatives in Virginia?"
"I have cousins."
"Is one Robert Stevens?"
"He is."
"I know him, he befriended me and sent me here."
Then the stranger told how he had been an indented slave in Virginia, and escaped from a cruel master through the aid of Robert Stevens.
The strangers were George Waters and his daughter Cora.