But we will try to help you to get there.' Eliza wanted to go to Canada, because it belonged to the British.

They did not allow any one to be made a slave there.

George, too, was going to try to reach Canada.
'Wife,' said the gentleman, when they had gone back again into their own sitting-room, 'we must get that poor woman away to-night.

She is not safe here.

I know some good people, far in the country, who will take care of her.' So this kind gentleman got the carriage ready, and drove Eliza and her boy a long, long way, through the dark night, to a cottage far in the country.