ch, he alleges,
he suffered severely.

He seems to be well acquainted with the adjoining localities,
but altogether his narrative is almost incredible, and I am
therefore induced to make the inquiry whether such a man has
escaped from your service or lately left your neighborhood. We
are perfectly flooded with such vagrants. It would be a great
relief if some measures could be resorted to to keep them under
legal restraint. An answer addressed to No. 73 South 4th Street,
above Walnut, will reach me, and oblige, Yours, &c.

WM. J. CANBY.

Weeks passed, but no answer came from the Major. All hope was abandoned
of obtaining a more satisfactory clue to the history of Tucker White.
About three months, however, after Mr. Williamson had written, the
appended note came as an answer:

MR. CANBY:

Major Roney received a letter from you relative to his boy,
Tucker White, and has sent me here to inquire of you his
whereabouts now. If you know anything concerning him and will
give me such information so I can get him, you will be rewarded
for your trouble. You will please address,

No. 147 American Hotel.

The Major would have sent on sooner but he has been sick, and
the letter laid in Office several days.

Mr. Canby was at the time ill, and no attention was paid to the
communication. After a day's delay the following note came to hand, but,
as in the former instance, no answer was returned.

MR. CANBY:

You will confer a great favor on me by writing me whether you
were really the author of a letter to Major Isaac Roney, of
Dinwiddie Court House, Va., relative to his boy Tucker White,
and if you were the author, please let me know when you last saw
him, and where. I called at your office yesterday to see you,
but your cousin (I think he said he was) told me you had the
cholera, and if you felt well enough you were going to the
country to-morrow. I hope you will excuse my writing to you
to-day, on that account. I would not know where to direct a
letter if I were to wait until to-morrow. If you know anything
concerning him and will let me know it, so that I can find and
arrest him, you will very much oblige

Yours, &c.,

I.M. TUCKER.

No. 147 American Hotel.

Please write me an answer to-day, so I may know how to proceed
to-morrow. If I find him I will be very