I wonder that you planters do not have a Society for the Encouragement of Runaways.

Seeing that they are nearly always retaken, and that their escapades so lengthen their term of service, it would surely be to your advantage! There are yet several years in which I am to call you master." He laughed again, but the sound was mirthless, and the eyes beneath the half-closed lids were harder than steel.

Haward mounted his horse and gathered up the reins.

"I am not responsible for the laws of the realm," he said calmly, "nor for rebellions and insurrections, nor for the practice of transporting overseas those to whom have been given the ugly names of 'rebel' and 'traitor.' Destiny that set you there put me here.

We are alike pawns; what the player means we have no way of telling.