They said that they had made the most liberal offer to Whitfield, to buy or sell for the sole purpose of reuniting husband and wife.

But he stood out against it--they felt sorry for me.

They said they had bought me to speculate on, and were not able to lose what they had paid for me.

But they would make a bargain with me, if I was willing, and would lay a plan, by which I might yet get free.

If I would use my influence so as to get some person to buy me while traveling about with them, they would give me a portion of the money for which they sold me, and they would also give me directions by which I might yet run away and go to Canada.
This offer I accepted, and the plot was made.