"Then we may use that," replied the planter. "But I am in doubt about one thing which may bother us."
"What's that, father?" asked Deck, who could not think of any impediment to the carrying out of the plan announced by his father.
"I don't know that we can depend upon every person about the plantation. A single one opposed to our scheme could ruin it. He might go to the village and tell Titus, or some of his fellow-conspirators, what we were about, and interfere with us before we got back."
"No one here would do such a thing," protested Deck. "All the servants believe in you."
"I was thinking of Levi Bedford."
"Levi!" exclaimed both of the loyal boys together.
"I have never spoken a word to him about politics, or he to me. Absolutely all I know about him is that he is a Tennesseean. But we must settle this point on the instant; you may go and find him, Dexter, and ask him to come into the library."
Deck left the room. He found the overseer in the sitting-room with the family, and he returned with him a minute later.