The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1858-07-08

oTTUMWA, IOWA. THURSDAY, JULY s. 1858.

so near? She sat with her shoes in her hand
her. eyes fastened on the door. AT las: it
opened, and Debby's brown face peeped ih.-
They passed ont together,-the mulaito TAX
ing the precaution to lock the door and put
the key in her pocket. softly they went down
stairs, through the kitchen, out into the ad-
joining alley. Two gentleman with car
riage weres in attendance. They sprang in,
and were whirled away. After riding some
miles. the carriage was stopped one Of the
gentlemen aligh.ed and handed the women
our. s1 Uat ss
Z s'My name Is Dinsmore,' he said. s'I am
uncle to your friend. Frank Helper. You are
to pass for my daughter, and Debby is our SER
want"
sand Alfred,-Mr. Noble mean, where
is he p" asked Loo Loo. 4 s1.s., sgf i
"He will follow in good time. Ask no more
questions now.' ~
The carriage rolled away and the party it
had conveyed were soon on their way to the
North by an express-trsin. ms
1t would be impossible to describe the anxi-
ETY. Alfred had endured from the time Loo Loo
became the property Of the cotton- broker un-
til he heard of her escape. From motives Of
policy he was kept in ignorance OF the per-
sons employed, and of the measures they in
tended to take. In this state Of suspense, his
reason might have been endangered, had not
Madame Labasse brought cheering messages,
from time to time, assuring him that all was
carefully arranged, and success nearly certain.
When MIR. Grossman, late in the day, dis
covered that his pray had escaped, ms rage
knew no bounds. He offered one thousand
dollars for the detection OF any one vino had
aided her. He made successive attempts to OBJ
tain an Indictment against Mr.. Noble but he
was proved TO have been distant from the
scene of action, and there was no evidence
that be had any connection with the mysteri-
Gus affair. Failing in this, the exasperated
cotton-hroker swore that he would have his
spoken Yankee was at the bottom of it. He
challenged him; but Mr.. Noble, notwthstand-
ing the arguments of Frank Helper, refused,
Or the grounds that he held New England
opinions Oh the subject OF dueling. The Ken
tuekian could not understand that it required
a far higher kind of courage to refuse tnan it
would have done to accept. The bully pro-
claimed him a coward, and shot at him in the
street, but without inhicting very serious
wound. Thepceforth he went armed, aud his
Fri DO L o,frhf n 10 1b.bl
owed his life to the fact that Mr.. Grossmar
was compelled TO 60 to New Orleans sudden
ly, on urgent business. Before leaving, the
latter sent messengers to Savannah, Charles
ton, Louisville, and elsewhere exact descrip-
tions of the fugitiyes were posted in all public
places, and the offers Of reward were doubled;
but the activity thus excited proved all in vain
The runaways had travelled night and day,
and were in Canada before their pursuers
reached New York. A few lines from Mr..
Dinsmore announced this to Frank Helper, in
phraseology that could not be understood, in
case the letter should be inspected at the post
office. He wrote 81 told you we intended to
visit Montreal and by the date Of this yoa
will see that have carried my plan into ex-
ecution. My daughter likes the place SO
much that think shall leave her here awhile
in charge Of our trusty servant, while | 20
home to look after my afars.''
After the excitement had somewhat sabsi-
ded, Mr.. Noble ascertained the process by
which his friends hat succeeded in eifecting
the rescue. Aunt Debby owed her master a
grudge for having repeatedly sod her child
| rem |; and just at that time fresh wound was
! ranking ia her heart, because her only son, a
bright lad Of eighteen, of whom Mr.. Cross
man was the reputed father, had been sold to
| a slave-tradsr, to help raise the large sum hs
had given for Loo Loo. Frank Helpers
friends, having discovered this state of affairs,
opeued negotiation with the mulatto woman,
promising to send both her and her son 20 Cam
ada, il she would assist them in their plans. -
Aunt Debby chuckled over the idea Of her
masters disappointment, and was eager to
seize the opportunity Of being reunited to her
last remaining child. The lad was according
ly purchased by the gentleman who distribu-
ted oranges in the prison, and was sent to
Canada, according to promise. Mr.. Gross
man was addicted to strong drink, and Aunt
Debby had long been in the habit of prspar-
ing portion for him before he retired to re st.
81 mixed 1t powerful, dat az night" said the
laughing muiatto sand put in something dat
de gemmon gay to me. Ireckon he walked
up awful late" Mr.. Dinsmors, maternal
uncle OF Frank Helpers had been visiting the
South, and was then about to return to New
York. When the story was told to him, he
said nothing would please him more than to
take the fugitives under his own protection.
SCENE v.
Mr.. Noble arranged the wreck Of his affairs
as speedily as possible, eager 20 be Oh the way
to Montreal. The evening before he started,
Frank Helper waited upon Mr.. Grossman,
and said: "That handsome slave you have
been trying SO hard to catch is doubtless be-
yond your reach, and will take good care not
to come within your power. Under these cir
cumstances, she is worth nothing to you but
for the sake Of quieting the unsasiness Of my
friend Noble, I will give you eight hundred
dollars to relinquish all claim to her."
The broker few into violent rage "Pll