The weather there, is not colder than in New
York.

The next morning was the Sabbath, but this I must pass
and hasten to D., the residence of Mr. Bradley. We
started early Monday morning. As a part of the road was
very bad, we did not reach there till a late hour. As we
were passing along, and getting near to the place, we
met two colored men who were talking together--one on
horseback, and the other on foot. I inquired of them, if
they could tell me how far it was to Mr. Bradley's. The
man on horseback said it was about a mile further, and
then proceeded to give directions. After he had done
this, he said: 'I reckon I am the one that you want to
find, my name is Bradley.' Well, I replied, probably you
are the man. Just then Ann Maria turned her head around.
As soon as he saw her face, he exclaimed: 'My Lord!
Maria, is that you? Is that you? My child, is it you? We
never expected to see you again! We had given you up; O,
what will your aunt say? It will kill her! She will die!
It will kill her.'

I told him, that as I was obliged to leave again soon, I
must proceed. 'Well,' said he, 'you go on; I am just
going over to M., and will be back in a few minutes.' We
started for his house, and he towards M., but we had
only gone a short distance, when he overtook us,
exclaiming: 'I can't go to M.,' and began talking to Ann
Maria, asking her all about her friends and relatives,
whom they had left behind, and about his old master, and
his wife's master, from whom they had run away four
years before. As we approached the house, he said: 'I
will go and open the gate, and have a good fire to warm
you.' When he came up to the gate, he met his wife, who
was returning from a store or neighbor's house, and he
said to her, 'That's Ann Maria coming yonder.' She
stopped until we came to the gate; the tears were
rolling from her eyes, and she exclaimed: 'Ann Maria, is
it you?' The girl leaped from the wagon, and they fell
on each other's necks, weeping and rejoicing. Such a
scene I never before witnessed. She, who had been given
up as lost, was now found! She, who but a short time
before, had been, as they supposed, a sl