A second glance showed that all these three were in irons.

Obviously then the law, which at that time under the newly formed Compromise Acts allowed an owner to follow his fugitive slaves into any state, was here finding an example, one offering indeed all the extremes of cruelty both to body and to soul.
"For instance, young lady, look at that," went on the boat captain, turning to Josephine, who was carried back by the incoming rush of the new passengers.

"It is something we see now and again on this river.

Sometimes my heart aches, but what can I do?
That's the law, too.

I have learned not to meddle." [Illustration: "That's the law, too"] "My God! My God!" exclaimed Josephine St.Auban, her eyes dilating with horror, forgetting her own plight as she looked at the spectacle before her.