. The young deliverers of Pleasat Cove . one for his ownuse? 254 THE YOUNG DELIVERERS OF PLEASANT COVE. « Yes. Is she any different from the rest ? She^ has a white streak, a red bead, and H. her mainsail; the others are all Here is your money. I didnt give you this information for money,capn. Ive been a slave to Henri Lemaire. Ifhe should find out that any information had gonefrom me, he would have me assassinated. I haveput my life in your hands. You may trust in me. I am equally in yourpower. You can secure yourself and destroy meat any moment by telling him my business
. The young deliverers of Pleasat Cove . one for his ownuse? 254 THE YOUNG DELIVERERS OF PLEASANT COVE. « Yes. Is she any different from the rest ? She^ has a white streak, a red bead, and H. her mainsail; the others are all Here is your money. I didnt give you this information for money,capn. Ive been a slave to Henri Lemaire. Ifhe should find out that any information had gonefrom me, he would have me assassinated. I haveput my life in your hands. You may trust in me. I am equally in yourpower. You can secure yourself and destroy meat any moment by telling him my business you any objection to inform me of anotherthing ? No, now that we have gone so far. How came you by this knowledge ? His overseer told me. He was a very powerful man; how did theytake him ? 3 He had to pass through a narrow alley on hisway back to the vessel. The overseer and fourmore stretched a wire across it; he couldnt see the * wire in the night, and fell over it. They leaped onhim while he was down, handcuffed, gagged him, and. WALTER AND HENRI LEMAIRE. 2f)> put him into a droger. It-was nothing uncommonto see Lemaires overseer takinc; a runaway slave » home, and no one paid any attention to it. When will he probably be here again ? To-day is Saturday; next Tuesday will be his day. Walter did not communicate his information to any one, riot even to Ned. In the mean time, they were all very much puzzled to divine why he did • not get under way, if he wras going from one plan-tation to another, and not lose any more time. Sunday night, without giving the source of hisinformation, he told them he had ascertained whereLemaires plantation was; that he would probablybe at St. Pierre the next Tuesday, or thereabouts;and to look sharp for a droger with a white waist,a red bead round her, and H. L. in the middle clothof her mainsail. Tuesday afternoon, about three oclock, Ned,whose curiosity had led him to go to the mast-head, reported that there was a sail in sight,whic
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