Chapter 17 THE ESCAPE

"No refuge is found on our unhallowed ground,

For the wretched in Slavery's manacles bound;

While our star-spangled banner in vain boasts to wave

O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!"

WE left Mary, the daughter of Clotel, in the capacity of a servant in her own father's house, where she had been taken by her mistress for