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off went one of the fleetest negros to the widow, she rode home as fast as she could dispatching her Negros in all directions even to Stephen's plantation. Leaving the Mamma to bewail over the absence of her daughter we will return to the runaways.

 On their arrival at the town of __ Stephen obtained the license from the County Clerk, be presented himself & his faithful F _ before the Judge & in a few minutes they were Man & Wife, when Stephen now the happiest of mortals "took her home"
 Late at night the widows sable emissaries arrived one by one no tidings of the undutiful daughter, when later still the negro who had been dispatched to Stephen's was heard singing most merrilly in praise of Missey & Massa [crossed out: Stephen]  David, so intoxicated that he could not find the gate & tearing down the Virginia fence so as to obtain an entrance into the

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