Wal' this Bert runned away a long while ago, an' never cum back; but he left a baby behind him--a gurl baby--which a quadroon slave give birth too.

The quadroon's name wus Delia, an' the kid wus called Rene.

Git them names in yer head.

Ol' Beaucaire he knew the gurl wus his son's baby, so he brought her up 'long with his own daughter, who wus named Eloise.

They wus both 'bout ther same age, an' nobody seemed ter know thet Rene wus a nigger.