CHAPTER II


ELIZA RUNS AWAY WITH LITTLE HARRY


Mr. Shelby was very unhappy because of what he had done. He knew his
wife would be very unhappy too, and he did not know how to tell her.

He had to do it that night, however, before she went to bed.

Mrs. Shelby could hardly believe it. 'Oh, you do not mean this,' she
said. 'You must not sell our good Tom and dear little Harry. Do anything
rather than that. It is a wicked, wicked thing to do.

'There is nothing else I can do,' said Mr. Shelby. 'I have sold
everything I can think of, and at any rate now that Haley has set his
heart on having Tom and Harry, he would not take anything or anybody
instead.'

Mrs. Shelby cried very much about it, but at last, though she was very,
very unhappy she fell asleep.

But some one whom Mr. and Mrs. Shelby never thought of was listening to
this talk.