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of her eon and understood ~ ux~derstood why death had oo~jte and why Eliza had gone away.

	“The beautift~1 ho~ne on the Cwnberland river with its more than 600 acres of productive land was put into the hand8 of an administrator of estates to be readjustcd in the interest of the George heirs. It was only then Mistress Hester went to Aunt Lucy and demanded of her to tell where Eliza could be found.

	‘“She has gone to Alabama, 01e Mistu~V, said Aunt Lucy, ‘E~liza was soared to stay here.‘ A party of searchers were sent out to look for Eliza. They found her secreted in a cane brake in the low lands of Alabama nursing her baby boy at her breast. They took Eliza and the baby back to Kentucky. I am that baby, that child of unsatisfactory birth.“

	The face of George Fortan registered sorrow and pain, it had been hard for him to retell the story of the dark road to strange ears.

	“My white uncles had toLl L(istreas Hester that if Eliza brought me back they ~w‘ere going to büild a fire and put ins in it, ~ny birth was so unsatisfactory to all of them, but ~istress Hester always did what she believed was right and I waS brought up by my own mother.

	“We 1 ived in a cabin at the s lave quarters and mother worked in the broom cane. Mistress Hester naned me Ford Ceorge, in derision,but remained my friend. She was never angry with my mother. She knows slave had to submit to her master and be sides Eliza did not know she was Master Ford George‘ s daughter.“

	The truth had been told at last. The master was both the father of Eliza dnd the father of Eliza‘s son.

	“Mistress Hester believed I would be feeble either in mind or body because of my unsatisfactory birth, but I developed as other children did and was well treated by Mistress Heater, Mistress Loraixme and her children.