And I wrote another one to tell you I was coming; and I s'pose he -" "No, it come yesterday; I hain't read it yet, but IT'S all right, I've got that one." I wanted to offer to bet two dollars she hadn't, but I reckoned maybe it was just as safe to not to. So I never said nothing. THE first time I catched Tom private I asked him what was his idea, time of the evasion? - what it was he'd planned to do if the evasion worked all right and he managed to set a nigger free that was already free before? And he said, what he had planned in his head from the start, if we got

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