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288 THE SLAVE TAKER.
him to whom I was indebted for my worthless life! Separated from his wife and children, and freedom, he departed without uttering a single word. Once, and once only, he suffered his eyes to dwell for an instant on mine, which sunk before their glare. Never can I forget that agonizing and despairing glance—it haunts me in broad daylight—it is with me in the deepest shades of night!"
13. "My servant had risen up, and he stood behind me, his eyes glistening with tears that trickled down his ebon cheeks; and when the sick man saw him, he exclaimed, in the extremity of terror, 'James is there—behind you, sir—he is come to torment me already! Take him away—take him away!" he repeated slowly, and sunk into a slumber from which he never awoke!"
14. "The eyes of the Lord are upon the ways of man, he seeth all his goings. There is no darkness, nor shadow of death, where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves. He striketh them as wicked men in the open sight of others. They cause the cry of the poor to come unto him; and he heareth the cry of the afflicted. When he giveth quietness, who then can make trouble? and when he hideth his face, who then can behold him? whether it be done against a nation, or against a man only," Job xxxiv.

THE TWO BOYS. 
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THE TWO BOYS.
As W. A. B., a citizen of New York, was returning from Albany, in the winter of 1818 or 1819, in the stage coach, it was overturned, and he was so much hurt, as to render him unable to proceed: he therefore remained at a house about twenty miles from the city.
2. Not long after his fellow-travellers had left him, a man by the name of Howard, with two little black boys, in a covered sleigh, stopped at the door; and our traveller, feeling sufficiently recovered from his hurt to proceed on his journey in an easy way, requested Howard to allow him to take a seat in his sleigh, and accompany him to New York, whither he told him he was going.
3. His request was at first refused, but after much persuasion, and an offer of payment for the trouble, he was permitted to bear them company. On leaving the house, one of the boys was placed on the back of the sleigh, (perhaps because their conversation might betray the wicked purposes of their master,) and was often called to, which circumstances created suspicion that all was not right.
4. They had not gone far, before the boy was missing; and Howard going back to look for him, B. had an opportunity of asking the other boy
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