38/62 "Yes, George Grey; but, James, he did not know how much we liked Josiah nor how good he had been to me, and how he got hurt when he stopped Leila's pony. He was sorry--but it was too late--oh, James!--you will not--oh, you will not--" "Will not what, dear ?" Penhallow was disgusted. A guest entertained in his own house to become a detective of an escaped slave in Westways, at his very gate! "My charity, Ann, hardly covers this kind of sin against the decencies of life. Now, who betrayed the man--who told Grey ?" "I am sorry to say that it was Peter Lamb who first mentioned Josiah to George Grey as a runaway. |