My guardian planned the whole." "Hugh Worthington is not the man I took him for," and Alice spoke bitterly.
"You mistake him," she cried eagerly.

"My guardian, Mr.Monroe, was pleased with the young Kentuckian, and led him easily.

He coaxed him to drink a glass of wine, which Hugh says must have been drugged, for it took away his power to act as he would otherwise have done, and when in this condition he consented to whatever Mr.Monroe proposed, keeping silent while the horrid farce went on.

But he has repented so bitterly, and been so kind to me and Willie." "And your guardian," interrupted Alice, "is it not strange that he should have acted so cruel a part ?" "Yes, that's the strangest part of all, and he was so kind to me.

I cannot understand it, or where he is, though I've sometimes imagined he must be dead; or in prison," and Adah thought of what Sam had said concerning Sullivan, the negro-stealer.
"What do you mean; why should he be in prison ?" Alice asked, and Adah replied by telling her what Sam had said, and the reason she had for thinking Sullivan and her guardian, Monroe, one and the same.
"I too am marked," and with a quick, nervous motion, she touched the spot where the blue lines were faintly visible.