" The stranger's heart was too
full of cares to respond to the generous man's simplicity; shaking
his hand fervently, he bid him good night, and disappeared up the
wharf.
We apprehend little difficulty to the reader in discovering the
person of Montague in our nervous man, who, in the absence of
intelligence from his wife, was led to suspect some foul play. Nor
were his suspicions unfounded; for, on returning to Memphis, which
he did in great haste, he found his home desolate, his wife and
child borne back into slavery, and himself threatened with Lynch
law. The grief which threatened to overwhelm him at finding those he
so dearly loved hurled back into bondage, was not enough to appease
a community tenacious of its colour. No! he must leave his business,
until the arrival of some one from New York, to the clerk who so
perfidiously betrayed him. With sickened heart, then, does he-only
too glad to escape the fury of an unreasoning mob-seek that place of
bondage into which the captives have been carried; nay, more, he
left the excited little world (reporting his destination to be New
York) fully resolved to rescue them at the hazard of his life, and
for ever leave the country. Scarcely necessary then, will it be for
us to inform the reader, that, having sought out the Rosebrooks, he
has counselled their advice, and joined them in devising means of
relief. Blowers had declared, on his sacred honour, he would not
sell the captives for their weight in gold.
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