human
My furlough is only for thirty days, Alfred remarked, while engaged in dressing himself,
gpt
What do you wish to write to New Orleans for,
human
Why, to wife, answered Alfred,
gpt
I think it is about time that she should hear from me.
human
My dear friend, replied Harry,
gpt
Where is she?
human
I could not tell you that, Harry answered,
gpt
How do you know that?
human
Dr. Humphries purchased a negro girl the day before I returned; she gave her name as Elsy, and said she was belonging to Mr. Alfred Wentworth, of New Orleans. On being questioned why she had left the city, the girl said that her mistress with your two children had been forced to leave by Beast Butler, who would not allow her to go also, but that, being determined to follow your wife, she had ran the blockade and came into the Confederate lines.
gpt
And did my wife sell her to anybody else?
human
Wait a moment, my dear friend, and I will tell you, answered Harry.
gpt
The girl did not see her mistress at all, for she was arrested on her arrival in this city, and having no papers, as well as no owner, she was sold according to law, and was purchased by Dr. Humphries, at whose residence she is now. I would have told you this when we first met, but it slipped my memory completely.
human
But where could my wife have gone to? remarked Alfred.
gpt
I do not know of any person in the Confederate lines with whom she is acquainted, and where she can get the means to support herself and children I have not the least idea.
human
That she has been to Jackson I am certain, Harry replied,
gpt
I thank you for your remembrance of me, observed Alfred.
human
This intelligence, however, will compel me to apply for an extension of my furlough, so that I may be enabled to find out where my wife and children are. I am very much alarmed at the news you have given me.
gpt
I hope your wife and children are comfortably situated, wherever they may be; and could I have discovered their residence, I should have made it my duty to see that they wanted for nothing.
human
I know it, I know it, said Alfred, pressing his friend's hand, and he continued,
gpt
As soon as you are ready let me know and we will start for the Doctor's, Harry answered,
human
No, no, Alfred remarked, hurriedly,
gpt
he added,