WATCH AND WAIT

CONTENTS.
PAGE

CHAP. I.--The Plantation of Redlawn 11

CHAP. II.--The Edith goes down to Green Point 21

CHAP. III.--Master Archy receives an Unlucky Blow 31

CHAP. IV.--Dandy determines to "watch and wait." 41

CHAP. V.--The Tragedy at the "Dead Oak." 51

CHAP. VI.--A Vision of the Promised Land 62

CHAP. VII.--The Isabel is prepared for a Cruise 73

CHAP. VIII.--The Departure of the Young Fugitives 84

CHAP. IX.--The Fugitives reach Lake Chicot 95

CHAP. X.--Breakfast on board the Isabel 107

CHAP. XI.--The Bay of the Bloodhounds 117

CHAP. XII.--Quin, the Runaway 128

CHAP. XIII.--The Night Chase on the Lake 139

CHAP. XIV.--The Battle for Freedom 152

CHAP. XV.--The Fate of the Slave-Hunters 164

CHAP. XVI.--In the Swamp 176

CHAP. XVII.--Cyd has a Bad Fit 187

CHAP. XVIII.--The Affray on the Lake 199

CHAP. XIX.--Lily on the Watch 211

CHAP. XX.--Preparing for the Voyage 220

CHAP. XXI.--Down the Lake 229

CHAP. XXII.--The Isabel runs the Gantlet 241

CHAP. XXIII.--Colonel Raybone changes his Tone 252

CHAP. XXIV.--The Young Fugitives make a Harbor 264




WATCH AND WAIT.




WATCH AND WAIT;

OR,

THE YOUNG FUGITIVES.




CHAPTER I.

THE PLANTATION OF REDLAWN.


One soft summer evening, when Woodville was crowned with the glory and
beauty of the joyous season, three strangers presented themselves before
the Grant family, and asked for counsel and assistance. The party
consisted of two boys and a girl, and they belonged to that people which
the traditions of the past have made the "despised race;" but the girl
was whiter and fairer than many a proud belle who would have scorned her
in any other capacity than that of a servant; and one of the boys was
very nearly white, while the other was as black as ebony undefiled. They
were fugitives and wanderers from the far south-west; and the story
which they told to Mr. Grant and his happy family will form the
substance of this volume.