now bending her day and night energies. Her first object was to
purchase the son, as his wages would aid her to accumulate more
readily the amount required for the daughter, as she had the promise
of both of her children. But her economizing to purchase the son first
for the sake of his help failed, as the master's indebtness compelled
him to sell one of them, and market was found for the girl of sixteen.
Nine hundred dollars was offered, and the distressed mother had but
four hundred dollars to pay.

She had trusted in her Lord and Savior in all these years of toiling,
and now must she see that daughter sold down the river? In her
distress she went from house to house, to plead for a buyer who would
advance the five hundred dollars, and take a mortgage on her until she
could make it. At length she found a Baptist deacon who purchased her
daughter, and she paid him the four hundred dollars. He was to keep
her until the mortgage was redeemed by the mother, who was compelled
to abandon her first project, and bend her energies toward making the
five hundred dollars. After working very hard one year, she was able
to pay but one hundred and fifty dollars to ward the mortgage, when
her health began to fail. The deacon told her the money was coming too
slowly, and that he could not wait longer than another year, before he
would have to sell her to get his money back. "Weeping and prayer was
my meat and drink day and night. Oh! must I see my poor chile' go
after all my hope to save her?" A merchant in that town by whom she
had been employed, told her he would give her a little secret advice,
which was, to go to Louisville as she had done before, but not to stop
there, but to go on to Cincinnati, and he would give her a good
recommendation to his brother, Mr. Ketcham, who was a merchant and
knew the abolitionists. They would aid her in raising the three
hundred and fifty dollars; but she must not let it be known that he