At last he borrowed money from a man called Haley, hoping to be able to pay it back again some day.
But that day never came.

Haley grew impatient, and said, 'If you don't pay what you owe me, I will take your house and lands, and sell them to pay myself back all the money I have lent to you.' So Mr.Shelby sold everything he could spare and gathered money together in every way he could think of, but still there was not enough.
Then Haley said, 'Give me that slave of yours called Tom--he is worth a lot of money.' But Mr.Shelby knew that Haley was not a nice man.

He knew he did not want Tom for a servant, but only wanted to sell him again, to make more money.

So Mr.Shelby said, 'No, I can't do that.

I never mean to sell any of my slaves, least of all Tom.