Alex St. Clair Abrams
Capitolo 54
"Thanks, gentleman; seven hundred dollars; going to seven hundred
dollars. You look at the girl, gentlemen, going to seven hundred dollars.
Can I find another offer?" exclaimed the auctioneer in the rapid voice
particular to his/her class.
"Seven hundred and twenty-five", it was the next offer.
"Seven hundred and fifty", the Dr. Humphries shouted, after having done on his
you mind to purchase her/it.
In some minutes the slave knocks down" to the doctor for eleven
one hundred dollars, and after the correct form had gone through and the
money it paid, he ordered that she followed him/it, and it reconsidered his/her footsteps
homeward.
As you/they have already had to recognize our readers, Elsy was not anything else other than
the slave that had gone away to Orleans Nuova to her Mrs. Wentworth, and that
it declared that she would have followed his/her owner in the Confederate
lines. After having made many ineffective attempts she had succeeded in
Baton that arrives Makes up, the capital of Louisiana to that the place her
eluded the Federal pickets, and it made his/her way to Jackson. The first one
part of his/her trip that is through the country that she has passed unnoticed,
up to that on his/her arrival to Jackson she was stopped by the police that
demanded his/her papers. Not having some she was confined in the county
you incarcerate, and after due notice in the papers, sending to call the owner to
comes and hands away her, she was sold to sale by auction according to law. The
girl was sorry a lot to his/her failure to find his/her owner, but
being soon of a good disposition was satisfied with his/her destiny.
Accordingly, when the Dr. Humphries purchased him, she made him follow house
with a happy footstep.
On to enter his/her house the doctor the blacks they introduced to Emma.
"Here, Emma" he observed, "it is a girl that I have bought for you to-day."
"Thanks", she responded, while looking to Elsy. "Really this is a beautiful
girl that looks. Who bought the from?"
"You say her it is of Orleans Nuova. His/her master it is a prisoner in the