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 there was plenty of room. When seated by her mother she said, "Why would you not trust me to the man, he said he would take care of me?" "Yes, Susan, but the man was a stranger to me, and I did not choose to trust my child with him." "Do you think he was a bad man, mother?" "Indeed, Susan, I do not know, but I could not place confidence in a stranger." They soon overtook the first coach, and stopped to take up its passengers; one of them said to Susan's mother, "It was well, madam, that you did not suffer your little girl to ride with the coachman; we have had a sad fright; the