eat agitation said, "I
really don't know what to do; I calculate it is all right." He then
told the clerk to run and tell the conductor to "let this gentleman and
slave pass;" adding, "As he is not well, it is a pity to stop him here.
We will let him go." My master thanked him, and stepped out and hobbled
across the platform as quickly as possible. I tumbled him
unceremoniously into one of the best carriages, and leaped into mine
just as the train was gliding off towards our happy destination.

We thought of this plan about four days before we left Macon; and as we
had our daily employment to attend to, we only saw each other at night.
So we sat up the four long nights talking over the plan and making
preparations.

We had also been four days on the journey; and as we travelled night
and day, we got but very limited opportunities for sleeping. I believe
nothing in the world could have kept us awake so long but the intense
excitement, produced by the fear of being retaken on the one hand, and
the bright anticipation of liberty on the other.

We left Baltimore about eight o'clock in the evening; and not being
aware of a stopping-place of any consequence between there and
Philadelphia, and also knowing that if we were fortunate we should be
in the latter place early the next morning, I thought I might indulge
in a few minutes' sleep in the car; but I, like Bunyan's Christian in
the arbour, went to sleep at the wrong time, and took too long a nap.
So, when the train reached Havre de Grace, all the first-class
passengers had to get out of the carriages and into a ferry-boat, to be
ferried across the Susquehanna river, and take the train on the
opposite side.

The road was constructed so as to be raised or lowered to suit the
tide. So they rolled the luggage-vans on to the boat, and off on the
other side; and as I was in one of the apartments adjoining a
baggage-car, they considered it unnecessary to awaken me, and tumbled
me over with the luggage. But when my master was asked to leave his
seat, he found it very dark, and cold, and raining. He missed me for
the first time on the journey. On all previous occasions, as soon as
the train stopped, I was at hand to assist him. This caused many
slaveholders to praise me very much: they said they had never before
seen a slave so attentive to his master: and therefore my absence
filled him with terror and confusion; the children of Israel could not
have felt more trouble