Long 'bout the mouth ov the Illinoy they caught up with a nigger-stealer named Shrunk.

They hed a fight in an' about his cabin, an' sum killin'.

Two ov the womin got away, but Kirby an' Tim got hold o' this gurl what hed claimed ter be Rene, an' a mulatto cook who wus a workin' fer Shrunk.

I reckon maybe yer know the rest." "I know they wus run down by the _Adventurer_, an' hauled aboard.

But how did Kirby learn his prisoner wus white?
Did she tell him ?" "I should say not.