I think it is impossible he can have obtained any clew to my connivance at her escape, and yet I feel a little uneasy.

I am so ignorant of the laws on this subject, that I don't know what he has the power to do if he discovers her.

Can he claim her here in Boston ?" "He could claim her and bring her before the United States Court," replied Mr.Percival; "but I doubt whether he _would_ do it.

To claim such a girl as _that_ for a slave, would excite general sympathy and indignation, and put too much ammunition into the hands of us Abolitionists.

Besides, no court in the Free States could help deciding that, if he sent her to Nassau, she became free.