Then they all came around me, and one of the men said--
"'Don't be frightened, my little dear. No one will do you any harm;
and if you will be a right good girl, and do just as we want you to
do, you shall go home to-morrow.'
"I tried not to cry, but the tears came running down my face. Then the
other man said sharply--
"'Come now, my little lady, we can't have any more of this! If you
wish to go home again tomorrow, dry your tears at once. There! there!
Hush all them sobs. No one is going to do you any harm.'
"I was so frightened at the way the man looked and talked, that I
stopped crying at once.
"'There!' said he, 'that is something like. Now,' speaking to the lady,
'put on her things. It is time she was there.'
"I was more frightened at this, and the men saw it; so one of them
told me not to be alarmed, that they were only going to show me a
large, handsome house, and would then bring me right back; and that in
the morning, if I would go with them now, and be a good girl, I should
go home again.
"So I went with them, and tried my best not to cry. They brought me
into a large house, and there were a good many men inside. The men all
looked at me, and I was so frightened! Then they talked together, and
one of them kept pointing toward me. At last I was taken back to
the house, where I stayed all day and all night with the lady.
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