CHAPTER XXIV.
THE YOUNG FUGITIVES MAKE A HARBOR.
"Colonel Raybone is not a bad man, after all," said Dan, as the Isabel filled away.
"He wouldn't be, if he wasn't a slaveholder," replied Lily.
"Possifus! I feel 'tickler sorry for ole massa, when he lay dar and couldn't help hisself," added Cyd.
"If he could have helped himself, he wouldn't have lain there. I never saw such a change come over a man. He will be ashamed of himself, I know, when he gets well, and it will be lucky for us that we are out of his reach."
"He would keep his word, Dan; you know that," said Lily, whose looks seemed to contain a mild rebuke of the sentiment just uttered.