You'd only laugh if we were to tell you, so we're going to keep it to ourselves, ain't we, Kinch ?" The latter, thus appealed to, put on an air of profound mystery, and intimated that if they were permitted to pursue the even tenor of their way, great results might be expected; but if they were balked in their designs, he could not answer for the consequences.
"You and Esther have your plans," resumed Caddy, "and we have ours.

We don't believe in powder and shot, and don't want anything to do with guns; for my part I'm afraid of them, so please let us go by--do, now, that's a good soul!" "You seem to forget that I'm the commander of this fortress," said Mr.
Walters, "and that I have a right to know everything that transpires within it; but I see you look obstinate, and as I haven't time to settle the matter now, you may pass on.

I wonder what they can be about," he remarked, as they hurried on.

"I must steal up by-and-by and see for myself." One after another the various friends of Mr.Walters came in, each bringing some vague report of the designs of the mob.

They all described the excitement as growing more intense; that the houses of various prominent Abolitionists had been threatened; that an attempt had been made to fire one of the coloured churches; and that, notwithstanding the rioters made little scruple in declaring their intentions, the authorities were not using the slightest effort to restrain them, or to protect the parties threatened.