In vain did they try to extort from the girl the whereabouts of the man whose escape she had effected.

She was not aware that he had fled on a steamer, and when questioned, she replied,-- "I don't know; and if I did I would not tell you.

I care not what you do with me, if Jerome but escapes." The smile with which she uttered these words finely illustrated the poet's meaning, when he says,-- "A fearful gift upon they heart is laid, Woman--the power to suffer and to love." Her sweet simplicity seemed to dare them to lay their rough hands amid her trembling curls.
Three days did the heroic young woman remain in prison, to be gazed at by an unfeeling crowd, drawn there out of curiosity.

The intelligence came to her at last that the court had decided to spare her life, on condition that she should be whipped, sold, and sent out of the State within twenty-four hours.
This order of the court she would have cared but little for, had she not been sincerely attached to her young mistress.
"Do try and sell her to some one who will use her well," said Georgiana to her father, as he was about taking his hat to leave the house.
"I shall not trouble myself to do any such thing," replied the hard-hearted parson.

"I leave the finding of a master for her with the slave-dealer." Bathed in tears, Miss Wilson paced her room in the absence of her father.