Did you know that, also ?" "I learned the truth on the boat, from the same source where Kirby obtained his information.

Elsie Clark told me." "Elsie Clark! Who is she?
How did she know ?" "A free negress, who had been employed by Amos Shrunk.

She was the other prisoner on the keel-boat when you were captured, kept locked below in the cabin.

Surely you knew there was another woman taken aboard the _Adventurer_ ?" "Yes, but we never spoke; she was below, and they kept me on deck.

How could she know who I was ?" "She did not.