"I'm not afraid of being caught; but Colonel Raybone almost always visits Mr. Lascelles in the month of May. Suppose he should be there, and we should happen to go near his plantation?"
"Hossifus!" groaned Cyd. "Massa Raybone down dar! Dis chile gubs it all up den."
"Don't give up yet, Cyd," laughed Dan.
"Mossifus! If dis nigger see ole massa, he done sink into de ground, like a catfish in de mud."
"You haven't seen him yet, Cyd; and what is more, I don't believe you will see him."
"I hope not," added Lily, with a shudder.
"If we do, it will not alter any thing."
"What would you do, Dan?"
"I will never become a slave again. We have guns and powder, bullets and shot."
"Would you kill him?"