for thy information; we’ll see this ——­, and settle the matter with him;’ and then turned the tide of conversation into a different direction.

“The same day Mr. Tyson sent for the person who was first mentioned as the person communicating the knowledge of the transaction, and asked him as to the fact of such communication.  It was positively denied.  He had ’not seen the informer for six weeks, except the last evening, when he brought a hack load of negroes to the tavern where he and his partner were lodgers.’

    “‘Were two boys among the number?’

    “‘Yes.’

    “‘Were they gagged?’

    “‘Yes.’

“The moment this man left his house, Mr. Tyson went in search of bailiffs and civil process.  With these he proceeded to the place where the two boys were confined, and had them and all three of the traders taken into custody.

“It turned out afterwards, in the further prosecution of this investigation, (by what testimony we do not distinctly recollect,) that the informer who first came to Mr. Tyson had himself kidnapped the two boys.  He sold them to the person upon whom he had endeavored, in the manner we have detailed, to affix the whole crime; who, refusing afterward to pay their price, and yet determined to retain them, exasperated the seller to such a degree that he resolved to sacrifice him; in attempting which he sacrificed himself, for he was afterward convicted and sentenced to the penitentiary.

“During the progress of any investigation originated by Mr. Tyson in behalf of individual freedom, his anxiety about the final issue, though concealed from the world, burned with intensity.  His days were restless, his nights were sleepless, and himself, except when in company, which he avoided at those times, lost in the abstractions of hope or of despondency.

“When he succeeded, his joy was strong, but invisible or inaudible, save to the Father of all mercies.  To him he never failed ‘to pour out his soul’ in pious thanksgivings for that he made him a humble instrument in the restoration of a fellow being to light and liberty.

“When he failed, which was seldom, after he had seriously undertaken a case, his sorrow was equally great, and as inscrutable to human observation, excepting that of the unfortunate objects of his care, who saw him mingling tears of sympathy with theirs of suffering.

“Though Mr. Tyson seldom failed in those cases which he had commenced in legal form, yet very many persons were turned hopelessly away whose cases were too groundless for adjudication; and often those who knew they had no cause for hope,—­condemned to be torn from their connections and sold, as if to death, never to be heard of more,—­would call merely to obtain his sympathies, as if the universe had no other friend for them.

“A man who lived with his master,