ee nc ee eeramemTnanenessnen means teteeerenenesnaaaaaaesaaaasa ea asaaaaaasasaasaaaaasaaaasasaaaaasaasasaisaaaaaiiasaiaiaitai! 306 UNOLE TOMS OABIN; OR, Cassy, turn to the dear Lord Jesus! He came to bind up the broken-hearted, and comfort all that mourn!” Cassy stood silent, while large, heavy tears dropped from her downcast eyes. “ Misse Cassy,” said Tom in a hesitating tone, after surveying her a moment in silence, “if you only could get away from here —if the thing was possible—I'd ‘vise ye and Emmeline to do it; that is, if ye could go without bloodguiltiness—not otherwise.” “ Would you try it with us, Father Tom?” “ No,” said Tom; ‘time was when I would; but the Lord’s given me a work among these yer poor souls, and T'll stay with ‘em and bear my cross with ’em till the end, It’s different with you; it'sasnare to you—it’s more’n you can stand; and you'd better go, if you can.” “TJ know no way but through the grave,” said Cassy. “ There’s no beast or bird but can find a home somewhere, even the snakes and the alligators have their places to lie down and be quiet ; but there’s no place for us. Down in the darkest swamps their dogs will hunt us out, and find us. Everybody and everything is against us, even the very beast side against us, and where shall we go?” Tom stood silent ; at length he said— : «« Him that saved Daniel in the den of lions—that saved the children in the fiery furnace—Him that walked on the sea and bade the winds be still—He’s alive yet; and I’ve faith to believe he can deliver you. Try it, and I'll pray with all my might for ou.” By what strange law of mind is it that an idea long overlooked, and trodden under foot as a useless stone, suddenly sparkles out in new light, as a discovered diamond? Cassy had often revolved, for hours, all possible or probable schemes of escape, and dismissed them all as hopeless and im- practicable ; but at this moment there flashed through her mind a plan so simple and feasible in all its details as to awaken an instant hope. , # «Father Tom, I'l try it!” she said suddenly. “ Amen!” said Tom. ‘“ The Lord help ye!”