...Pioneers And Patriots in Early American History
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They knew only that he was hidden somewhere. The voices grew louder and angrier. The slaves grew more and more frightened, but they were loyal in spite of fright. The Tories threatened them with whipping and with torture, but were at last convinced that they really did not know. Close beside the hiding place of the soldier, the Tories gathered, and soon decided that they would burn the house. ^'He's probably in it somewhere, so we'll get him dead if not alive," said one. In a short time there w...as smoke and the crackling of flames. The fire burned rapidly, and the man in the bushes began to suffer from the heat. He had torn his scanty garments in getting to his hiding place, and now the heat was blistering his back and arms. It seemed as though he must cry out. But crying out meant- capture and perhaps death. He bit his lips, and endured the torment. At last the Tories, seeing that the house 34 PIONEERS AND PATRIOTS was doomed, turned about, and, with a last threat flung toward the weeping negroes clustered at a little distance, rode off.
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