upon us with double vengeance, for daring to
attempt to escape in the manner which we contemplated.

We shook hands, said farewell, and started in different directions for
the railway station. I took the nearest possible way to the train, for
fear I should be recognized by some one, and got into the negro car in
which I knew I should have to ride; but my MASTER (as I will now call
my wife) took a longer way round, and only arrived there with the bulk
of the passengers. He obtained a ticket for himself and one for his
slave to Savannah, the first port, which was about two hundred miles
off. My master then had the luggage stowed away, and stepped into one
of the best carriages.

But just before the train moved off I peeped through the window, and,
to my great astonishment, I saw the cabinet-maker with whom I had
worked so long, on the platform. He stepped up to the ticket-seller,
and asked some question, and then commenced looking rapidly through the
passengers, and into the carriages. Fully believing that we were
caught, I shrank into a corner, turned my face from the door, and
expected in a moment to be dragged out. The cabinet-maker looked into
my master's carriage, but did not know him in his new attire, and, as
God would have it, before he reached mine the bell rang, and the train
moved off.

I have heard since that the cabinet-maker had a presentiment that we
were about to "make tracks for parts unknown;" but, not seeing me, his
suspicions vanished, until he received the startling intelligence that
we had arrived freely in a free State.

As soon as the train had left the platform, my master looked round in
the carriage, and was terror-stricken to find a Mr. Cray--an old friend
of my wife's master, who dined with the family the day before, and knew
my wife from childhood--sitting on the same seat.

The doors of the American railway carriages are at the ends. The
passengers walk up the aisle, and take seats on either side; and as my
master was engaged in looking out of the window, he did not see who
came in.

My master's first impression, after seeing Mr. Cray, was, that he was
there for the purpose of securing him. However, my master thought it
was not wise to give any information respecting himself, and for fear
that Mr. Cray might draw him into conversation and recognise his voice,
my master resolved to feign deafness as the only means of self-defence.

After a little while, Mr. Cray said to my mast