I will leave Tom and Chloe at the plantation, with instructions to do whatever you want done.

If I am needed, you can send Tom for me." The melancholy wreck he had seen saddened him for a day or two; those eyes, with their mysterious expression of somnambulism, haunted him, and led him to drown uncomfortable feelings in copious draughts of wine.

But, volatile as he was impressible, the next week saw him the gayest of the gay in parties at Savannah, where his pretty little bride was quite the fashion.
At the cottage there was little change, except that Chloe, by her master's permission, became a frequent visitor.

She was an affectionate, useful creature, with good voice and ear, and a little wild gleam of poetry in her fervid eyes.

When she saw Rosa lying there so still, helpless and unconscious as a new-born babe, she said, solemnly, "De sperit hab done gone somewhar." She told many stories of wonderful cures she had performed by prayer; and she would kneel by the bedside, hour after hour, holding the invalid's hand, praying, "O Lord, fotch back de sperit! Fotch back de sperit! Fotch back de sperit!" she would continue to repeat in ascending tones, till they rose to wild imploring.