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Rh Joe, “I am starved, but hungry as I am, I could not eat this if Iliad none for my wife.” “Eat,” said the man, and going into another room he brought some bread and meat and sent him away, saying, “Stay where your wife is to-night and to-morrow; come here again in the evening. Meanwhile, you must remember that your master will be looking for you. If I see any danger I will warn you by the ‘crack of my rifle.’”

When Joe started to go again to the house of their friend, Rosa went with him and stopped behind some bushes near the road. Joe had been gone about ten minutes when she heard horses coming, and lookingthrough the bushes, she saw her master and two of his neighbors go by; Joe had heard them also, and ran into the woods and soon heard the crack of a rifle. Later in the evening he went again to the house of their friend, who said, “Your master was here an hour ago and asked if I had seen two runaway niggers. I told him that a man and a woman went by pretty fast, but I did not see their faces, and did not know whether they were runaways or not, and he and his men rode off down the road.”

Joe and Rosa were in safe hands. They had, through great suffering, hunger, fright and fatigue, been guided by a kind Providence to the Southern terminus of the U. G. R. R. The track had but just reached this point and was not yet in good running order. However, although the trains ran slow and with caution, they were landed safely in Chester Co., Pa., about ten days after they left the first station.

Joe and Rosa found employment in the service of an honest Quaker farmer, who never asked them from whence they came. When they had been there almost a year, the Quaker returned from market one evening and sent for Joe to come to his room. When he came